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    ARMENIAN KNIFED TO DEATH ON TRAIN
    Published: Wednesday, 31 May, 2006, 11:31 AM Doha Time

    Gulf Times, Qatar
    May 31 2006

    MOSCOW: A 19-year-old ethnic Armenian man was knifed to death on
    a Russian passenger train last week by a group of youths shouting
    "glory to Russia", Ekho Moskvy radio station reported yesterday.

    Artur Sardaryan was stabbed repeatedly, rupturing his heart, when
    a group of young men attacked him on the train just outside Moscow,
    the radio station said, citing witnesses.

    Prosecutors have opened a formal investigation on charges of
    racially-motivated murder, Interfax news agency reported.

    Sardaryan was resident in Russia, reports said, but it was unclear
    whether he had Russian citizenship.

    A wave of killings and beatings in cities across Russia has raised
    concerns about the rise of racist groups in the country.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered police to stamp out
    racist attacks and described the rise of racism as a threat to national
    security in Russia.

    But rights group Amnesty International said this month the government
    was failing to confront the problem.

    Immigrants from ex-Soviet republics are frequent targets because they
    often have darker skin compared with ethnic Russians.

    The chaos that followed the fall of the Soviet Union bred uncertainty
    about Russia's place in the world and anger at the perceived threat
    from immigration.

    Racist groups flowered. - Reuters.
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