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    SKINHEADS MAY BE BEHIND BLAST AIMED AGAINST ARMENIANS IN MOSCOW

    Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow
    Dec 23 2006

    [Presenter] An explosion in a block of flats in Lyublinskaya Street
    in Moscow which occurred yesterday [22 December] may have been
    carried out by skinheads. Anyway, this is a preliminary theory of
    investigators. Our correspondent Tikhon Zyatko has the details.

    [Correspondent] A blast at 157 Lyublinskaya Street in Moscow went off
    at about 1900 [1600 gmt]. As a result, four policemen and a sniffer
    dog were hurt. A prosecutor's office brought criminal proceedings
    into the incident under the clause [of the Russian Criminal Code]
    dealing with hooliganism committed in a socially dangerous way.

    However, this case may be reclassified.

    According to the investigators' preliminary theory, this incident is
    a fresh attack against foreigners staged by skinheads, the newspaper
    Komsomolskaya Pravda said. An improvised explosive device was fixed
    outside the flat of Armine Babadzhanyan who found the bomb. When she
    came home with her son Tigran, she saw swastika drawn on the wall.

    Next to it, on a radiator, she saw a sheet with an insulting text
    written on it. The woman wanted to remove the sheet but noticed wires
    connecting it to a glass jar filled with white powder. Swastika was
    also drawn on the jar. After that, she called police.

    [Presenter] The same group of investigators who deal with the
    explosion at the Cherkizovskiy market [in Moscow] organized by
    nationalists, is investigating the blast in the block of flats in
    Lyublinskaya Street.
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