MURDER AS STRUGGLE

"The Fuehrer’s successors conquer Russian cities swifter than the Nazi troops in the autumn of 1941," one of Moscow’s newspapers gives alarm on occasion of the murder of 17 years old Armenian student Vahan Abrahamiants.
What strikes one in this heinous crime is its unspeakable impudence that is certainly the result of assurance of staying unpunished. The headlines of Russian papers evidence to it: "Student Slain In Front of A Dozen of People", "Killing and Leaving by Train", "Hitler Conquers Moscow" etc.
It’s merely unbelievable how the murderer could escape the police after stabbing the Armenian student to death at Pushkinskaya subway station - one of the central stations in Moscow – that was heavily guarded by the police for Easter celebrations. All tragedy is that people are being killed in Russia today for a darker skin and for narrower eyes.
One has an impression that the Russians, particularly lower orders, instinctively feel that something is happening to them, that they are losing their national identity, spiritual charge, moral ground and are turning into faceless and invertebrate creatures. And they turn to the most primitive most animal way of struggle…
By Ruben Hayrapetian in Moscow

Headlines for April 26, 2006

FOX-TV AIRS ARMENIAN
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier
In recent days, thousands of articles were published on the Armenian Genocide in newspapers around the world. In addition, in dozens of countries, TV and radio stations provided extensive coverage of ...
MURDER AS STRUGGLE
By Ruben Hayrapetian in Moscow
"The Fuehrer’s successors conquer Russian cities swifter than the Nazi troops in the autumn of 1941," one of Moscow’s newspapers gives alarm on occasion of the murder of 17 years ...
ARMENIAN-LITHUANIAN RELATIONS
By Tamar Minasian
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By Jeremy Page in Moscow; The Times April 21, 2006
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED BETWEEN THE ARMENIAN CHURCH AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
On April 20, His Grace Bishop Arshak Khachatrian, Chancellor of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and Rev. Dr. Kenneth Bensen, representative of Habitat for Humanity International, signed a Memorandum ...

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