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NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS MAY AFFECT ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
Wednesday,
October
16
The nationalist movements in Russia may affect Armenian-Russian
relations in a political sense, especially after Armenia announced
its decision to join the Customs Union. Political scientist Hrant
Melik-Shahnazarian expressed such an opinion at a meeting with
reporters today, when speaking about the recent nationalist riots
in Russia.
In his words, the nationalist ideology and movements are not something
new - these feelings are pent up for years and occasionally people
give vent to them for some reason or other.
Commenting on the recent stabbing death in Moscow, in which an
Azerbaijani is a suspect, and the subsequent actions of nationalists,
H. Melik-Shahnazarian noted that Russian law enforces used the wrong
mechanism to calm passions.
"Use of force only increases xenophobia", the political scientist said,
adding that the nationality of a criminal (Azerbaijani, Armenian,
or Georgian) makes no difference to Russian society, so each such
crime becomes a problem for all the ethnic minorities.
We would remind you that he killing of Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, unleashed
earlier this week the worst race riots Moscow has seen in three years
and nationalists threatened further protests in areas populated by
migrant workers from ex-Soviet Central Asia and Caucasus states.
Police said they had detained a native of Azerbaijan, Orhan Zeynalov,
who is suspected of fatally stabbing Shcherbakov in front of his
girlfriend while they were walking home on Thursday night.
The murder triggered the riots in Moscow's southern Biryulyovo
district, where Shcherbakov was attacked.
Police said Zeynalov resisted special forces when they tried to
detain him in Kolomna, a small town outside Moscow, Russian news
agencies reported.
Tensions simmer in Moscow between disenchanted ethnic Russian youths
and labor migrants mostly from predominantly Muslim ex-Soviet states.
Hundreds of nationalists gathered near a shopping centre in southern
Moscow, Russian wires said, to protest against Shcherbakov's killing in
what was promoted online by nationalists as an "Answer to Eid al-Adha."
City police official Oleg Sigunov was quoted by RIA as saying that
276 young people had been detained on their way to the protest.
TODAY, 17:28
Aysor.am
Wednesday,
October
16
The nationalist movements in Russia may affect Armenian-Russian
relations in a political sense, especially after Armenia announced
its decision to join the Customs Union. Political scientist Hrant
Melik-Shahnazarian expressed such an opinion at a meeting with
reporters today, when speaking about the recent nationalist riots
in Russia.
In his words, the nationalist ideology and movements are not something
new - these feelings are pent up for years and occasionally people
give vent to them for some reason or other.
Commenting on the recent stabbing death in Moscow, in which an
Azerbaijani is a suspect, and the subsequent actions of nationalists,
H. Melik-Shahnazarian noted that Russian law enforces used the wrong
mechanism to calm passions.
"Use of force only increases xenophobia", the political scientist said,
adding that the nationality of a criminal (Azerbaijani, Armenian,
or Georgian) makes no difference to Russian society, so each such
crime becomes a problem for all the ethnic minorities.
We would remind you that he killing of Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, unleashed
earlier this week the worst race riots Moscow has seen in three years
and nationalists threatened further protests in areas populated by
migrant workers from ex-Soviet Central Asia and Caucasus states.
Police said they had detained a native of Azerbaijan, Orhan Zeynalov,
who is suspected of fatally stabbing Shcherbakov in front of his
girlfriend while they were walking home on Thursday night.
The murder triggered the riots in Moscow's southern Biryulyovo
district, where Shcherbakov was attacked.
Police said Zeynalov resisted special forces when they tried to
detain him in Kolomna, a small town outside Moscow, Russian news
agencies reported.
Tensions simmer in Moscow between disenchanted ethnic Russian youths
and labor migrants mostly from predominantly Muslim ex-Soviet states.
Hundreds of nationalists gathered near a shopping centre in southern
Moscow, Russian wires said, to protest against Shcherbakov's killing in
what was promoted online by nationalists as an "Answer to Eid al-Adha."
City police official Oleg Sigunov was quoted by RIA as saying that
276 young people had been detained on their way to the protest.
TODAY, 17:28
Aysor.am