ARMENIANS PROVOKED FIGHT WITH AZERBAIJANI YOUTH IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL
TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
May 2 2007
(Version 3)
Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Agayeva / A serious fight occurred
between Azerbaijani and Armenian youths at the end of a festival
which was held in the Moscow-based Russian University of Friendship
of People on 1 May.
During the festival which was organized in the Russian University,
the Armenians provoked young Azerbaijani youths several times to
fight. Witnessing the Armenians dancing and raising the flag of the
un-recognized self-proclaimed separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh,
the Azerbaijani students warned them to stop. The Azerbaijani students
then reported the incident to both officers of the corresponding
security agencies of the Russian capital and the director of the
University about the illegitimacy of the actions by the Armenians, as
well as of the provocative nature of their statements and actions. The
Armenians ignored the requests and began to distribute Anti-Azerbaijan
literature amongst students of the University regardless of the
protests from the Azerbaijanis.
One of the Azerbaijanis who took part in the fighting tore up the
flag of the so-called ‘ Independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’. Even
after the Russian police and the OMON (emergency plat) arrived at the
scene and fired shots into the air, the Azerbaijanis and Armenians
continued fighting with each other.
As Trend has been informed, Aghali Alyshev, 22, who received a
gunshot wound, has been operated on at Hospital 64, within the Russian
Capitol. Information regarding his condition has yet to be confirmed.
On 2 May the Law-enforcement of the Obruchevskiy Region of Moscow
launched an investigation into the incident, which resulted in the
injury of 4 Azerbaijani citizens.
Meanwhile, Nigar Akhundova, the adviser for humanitarian issues at
the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia, said by telephone that one of
the injured, Agali Alyshov, is currently in Moscow and his health is
satisfactory after the recent surgery. Three more Azerbaijanis, who
received superficial knife injuries were not admitted to the hospital,
she added.
Attempts to obtain information on the incident from the university,
as well as from the Interior Affairs Department of Obruchevskiy Region
were not successful.