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    MOSCOW TEEN BEING HELD IN ALLEGED RACIALLY MOTIVATED SLAYING
    Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer

    All Headline News
    April 24 2006

    Atlanta, GA (AHN) - Moscow police are holding a high school student
    tied to the killing of an Armenian teenager in the Moscow subway over
    the weekend.

    A spokesman for the Moscow Prosecutor's Office says, "A 17-year-old
    student from a Moscow high school has been detained in connection with
    the killing of an Armenian committed last Saturday," adding that the
    teenager had admitted his involvement in the incident.

    Prosecutors believed the case to be racially motivated due to a string
    of recent attacks aimed at foreigners or people with darker skin.

    The latest victim was Vagan Abramyants, 17, of the Moscow Academy
    of Management was attacked and stabbed to death on the platform of
    Pushkinskaya metro station in the center of the capital at about 5
    p.m. on Saturday.
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