HAKOB PETIKYAN: NATIONAL ENMITY OFTEN SHOWS ITSELF IN CHILDHOOD

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
03.06.2009 16:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to poll, conducted among 40 Armenian
students of Nizhny Novgorod State University, national enmity often
shows itself in childhood.

In higher classes of school and Universities, students of different
nationalities are judged by their personal qualities, and not in
accordance with stereotypes, Youth Sector Leader at Regional Social
Organization of Nizhniy Novgorod’s Armenian Community, Hakov Petikyan
told at the round table on June 1.

In his turn, Local National-Cultural Autonomy Chairman, Tatar Renat
Islyamov noted that tolerance issue is in "people’s heads" "Some people
are interested in destabilization of country’s atmosphere. They are
destroying society from the inside," Yerkramas Russian Armenians’
newspaper cited Tatar’s Autonomy representative as saying.