TWO SUSPECTS IN SAMARA BRAWL PUT ON WANTED LIST
Nizhny Novgorod
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
September 17, 2006 Sunday 9:15 PM MSK
Two persons suspected of involvement in a fight between ethnic
Armenians and ethnic Russians in Volsk, the Saratov region, have been
placed on the federal wanted list.
They are Garnik Unanian, born in 1967, and Artur Mkhoian, born in 1981,
the local prosecutor’s office said in a press release.
"People from the Caucasus and visitors of Slavic appearance began
swearing at each other outside the Galaktika cafe on Komsomolskaya
Street in the town of Volsk at around 2:00 p.m. on September 10. The
men did not like each other and were drunk," the release says.
"The quarrel erupted into a fight," during which one of the men
sustained three lethal knife wounds, it says. Another three men of
Slavic appearance sought medical assistance later, it says.
"At the moment there are no grounds to assume that it was a hate
crime," the release says.
Two people were killed and another six injured in a mass brawl that
broke out between local residents and natives of the Caucasus at a
restaurant in Kondopoga, Karelia, early on August 30. One person was
killed in a shootout at a Samara market on September 13.