ARMENIANS MAIN TARGETS OF ALREADY 70 THOUSAND SKINHEADS IN RUSSIA
By Petros Keshishian

AZG Armenian Daily
09/05/2007

Russian law-enforcement agencies report about the scary growth of
Russian racists, so called skinheads.

The experts agree that there are about 70 thousand skinheads in Russia,
while two years ago they were only 50 thousand. The skinheads wage
assaults upon foreigners every day; they commit murders every week.

In the cities of Russia the fascists organize meetings, where they
try to spread hatred among nations. Alexandre Brod, head of the Human
Rights office in Moscow, informed that from January to April of this
year eighty thousand racist assaults have been committed: 25 people
were killed and 80 – injured. At the same time the Russian courts
delivered only 21 judgments of crimes on the cases of national hatred.

According to other sources, in the first months of this year in Russia
were waged 200 assaults by skinheads: 25 people were killed and 154
– injured.

Alexandre Brod said that the main targets of skinheads are
Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Armenians, Koreans, Georgians and
Africans. Besides, the attacks on sexual minorities have increased.

The skinheads are very active in Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod,
St. Peterburg, Rostov on Don, Vladivostok, Orenburg, Saratov,
Sverdlovsk, Arkhangelsk and Voronezh.