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NO TO RUSSIAN CHAUVINISM
[03:11 pm] 31 January, 2007

A number of young people from the youth union «Sargis Tkhrouni» of the
Social-Democrat party held a protest action opposite the Russian
Embassy today.

They demanded Russia, the strategic ally of Armenia, «to be more
consistent in revealing the murders of a number of Armenians by
Russian chauvinist skinheads and to fight against such
phenomena». They mentioned about it in their statement too which they
handed to the workers of the Russian Embassy.

`If they are not consistent in revealing the murders, we will go on a
sit-down strike opposite the building of the Embassy and will hinder
the work in any way we can’, said member of the organization Narek
Galstyan and cried out `No to Russian Fascism’.

The boys were angry at the fact that the Russian authorities try to
give an everyday coloring to the murders. According to the
participants of the protest action, it is but a deception, and `They
are playing into the hands of chauvinist organizations’. `The murders
are committed on nationalist ground. Of course we do not mean to say
that the violations are directed against Armenians. But the victims of
the skinheads are mainly dark-skinned people. All the same we will
fight for the rights of our compatriots’, Narek Galstyan claims.