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    MOSNEWS, Russia
    May 30 2006

    Young Armenian's Killing Near Moscow May Be Race-Related

    MosNews


    Prosecutors have opened a hate crime investigation into the fatal
    stabbing of an Armenian teenager at a Moscow suburban train station,
    a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Artur
    Sardaryan, 19, was killed on Thursday in the latest in a string of
    racially-motivated attacks in Moscow and throughout Russia, The
    Associated Press reports.

    Three young men approached Sardaryan as he was sitting on a commuter
    train around 11:30 p.m. and stabbed him for no apparent reason. He
    died later on the way to a hospital, Yelena Rossokhina, a spokeswoman
    for Moscow regional prosecutors, told journalists.

    Lawyer Simon Tsaturyan said that witnesses reported the youths
    yelling `Glory to Russia!' and `Long Live Russia!', Ekho Moskvy radio
    said.

    Russia in recent years has seen an increase in racially-motivated
    attacks on foreigners and migrants from the poorer Caucasus region
    and Central Asia. Last month, a skinhead fatally stabbed an Armenian
    student on a central Moscow subway platform.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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