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ARMENIANS UNDERGO EVIDENT DISCRIMINATION
Before calling Armenians to return home, lawyer, historian, diplomat
Ara Papyan advises to think that a lot of Armenians prefer to live
in Russia where the Armenians undergo evident discrimination.
"I see that there they catch and detain people, with their hands
behind their heads, extensively, as it was done in Germany once. And
it does not matter what positions the Armenians hold in Russia because
when Armenians were massacred in the Ottoman Empire, they also held
high-ranking positions," Papyan said.
He says he worries about the destiny of all those ordinary Armenians
who have opened a small kiosk in Russia to improve their life but
are undergoing discrimination today.
"Imperialism has a bad consequence, all the mother countries accept
migrants from colonies, this is natural. France accepts migrants
from North Africa. Russia has to admit that it is obliged to accept
migrants because when they were forcing everyone to learn Russian,
they should have known that those people would be knocking at their
door in the future," Papyan thinks.
He remembers how the statue of Andranik was placed in Sochi and later
removed for state reasons.
"The chairman of the Union of Armenians knew that if he defied, the
tax service would send him into bankruptcy. And here, why don't we
remove the statues of Griboyedov, Pushkin? We just expect a similar
attitude from Russia," Papyan says.
Roza Hovhannisyan 11:55 07/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/right/view/30645
Before calling Armenians to return home, lawyer, historian, diplomat
Ara Papyan advises to think that a lot of Armenians prefer to live
in Russia where the Armenians undergo evident discrimination.
"I see that there they catch and detain people, with their hands
behind their heads, extensively, as it was done in Germany once. And
it does not matter what positions the Armenians hold in Russia because
when Armenians were massacred in the Ottoman Empire, they also held
high-ranking positions," Papyan said.
He says he worries about the destiny of all those ordinary Armenians
who have opened a small kiosk in Russia to improve their life but
are undergoing discrimination today.
"Imperialism has a bad consequence, all the mother countries accept
migrants from colonies, this is natural. France accepts migrants
from North Africa. Russia has to admit that it is obliged to accept
migrants because when they were forcing everyone to learn Russian,
they should have known that those people would be knocking at their
door in the future," Papyan thinks.
He remembers how the statue of Andranik was placed in Sochi and later
removed for state reasons.
"The chairman of the Union of Armenians knew that if he defied, the
tax service would send him into bankruptcy. And here, why don't we
remove the statues of Griboyedov, Pushkin? We just expect a similar
attitude from Russia," Papyan says.
Roza Hovhannisyan 11:55 07/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/right/view/30645