ETHNIC ARMENIAN SHOT DEAD IN MOSCOW, ANOTHER WOUNDED
MOSNEWS, Russia
June 11 2006
Two ethnic Armenians have been shot in Moscow on Saturday night,
Interfax reported.
One of the men died, the other received injuries.
In late April, a young Amernian-born man was killed by a group of
youngsters in a fight at Moscow’s central Pushkinskaya metro station.
17-year-old Vagan Abramyants, a student of a Moscow university,
was standing on the platform with several friends, when a group of
shaved young men dressed in black attacked them, NTV channel said. The
attackers looked like skinheads, members of radical nationalistic
movement.
The nation’s leading pollster, Yuri Levada, said hate crimes were an
outgrowth of deep resentment over migrants and other foreigners who
come to Russia for work or to study – some illegally and many from
Central Asia, the Caucasus, and other parts of the former Soviet Union.