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ARMENIAN AND AZERI STUDENTS CLASH ON MAY DAY IN MOSCOW
By Adam Klesczewski The Moscow News
Moscow News (Russia)
May 4, 2007
A mass fight between the students of Azerbaijani and Armenianorigin
took place at the People Friendship University of Russiaduring the
May Day celebrations in Moscow on Tuesday.
Two groups of young men with national flags of Azerbaijanand Armenia
cried out "Karabakh! Karabakh!".
The fight started during an event titled "Planet South West"held
at the university on May 1. Nagorno Karabakh, a republicdisputed by
the two countries, was on maps of Armenia andAzerbaijan that hang in
pavilions of both republics.
According to a Moscow police spokesman, around 3 p.m. fightsstarted
to break out among different groups of the audience, makingthem hard
to suppress. Approximately one hundred people took partin the brawl,
police estimate.
The fight was subsequently stopped by the local securityguards and
the OMON riot police, however the participants fled to adormitory and
continued fighting, reports say. One man washospitalized with a gun
wound. Several others also received minorwounds but were treated on
the spot. Over 20 people were detained,all of them foreign citizens,
police said.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto independent republic in the SouthCaucasus,
predominately populated by Armenians while officiallybeing a part
of Azerbaijan, became a source of a violent disputebetween Armenia
and Azerbaijan in the late 1980s, culminating inthe Nagorno-Karabakh
War. Since the end of the war in 1994, most ofthe republic, as well
as several regions of Azerbaijan around itremain under joint Armenian
and NKR Defense Forces control.
By Adam Klesczewski The Moscow News
Moscow News (Russia)
May 4, 2007
A mass fight between the students of Azerbaijani and Armenianorigin
took place at the People Friendship University of Russiaduring the
May Day celebrations in Moscow on Tuesday.
Two groups of young men with national flags of Azerbaijanand Armenia
cried out "Karabakh! Karabakh!".
The fight started during an event titled "Planet South West"held
at the university on May 1. Nagorno Karabakh, a republicdisputed by
the two countries, was on maps of Armenia andAzerbaijan that hang in
pavilions of both republics.
According to a Moscow police spokesman, around 3 p.m. fightsstarted
to break out among different groups of the audience, makingthem hard
to suppress. Approximately one hundred people took partin the brawl,
police estimate.
The fight was subsequently stopped by the local securityguards and
the OMON riot police, however the participants fled to adormitory and
continued fighting, reports say. One man washospitalized with a gun
wound. Several others also received minorwounds but were treated on
the spot. Over 20 people were detained,all of them foreign citizens,
police said.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto independent republic in the SouthCaucasus,
predominately populated by Armenians while officiallybeing a part
of Azerbaijan, became a source of a violent disputebetween Armenia
and Azerbaijan in the late 1980s, culminating inthe Nagorno-Karabakh
War. Since the end of the war in 1994, most ofthe republic, as well
as several regions of Azerbaijan around itremain under joint Armenian
and NKR Defense Forces control.