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Published on December 01, 2006
Markarian Urges Russia To Tackle Hate Crimes
- Prime Minister Andranik Markarian urged Russia’s government to tackle continuing racist attacks on Armenians and minimize losses incurred by Armenian companies as a result of the Russian economic blockade of Georgia during a visit to Moscow on Friday. Marakian was reported by his office in Yerevan to have raised the issues during talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Fradkov. A statement by the Armenian government’s press service quoted him as expressing concern about “frequent instances of violence” against Armenians living in Russia. Markarian said the Russian authorities should admit the “ethnic character” of such crimes, the statement said, adding that Fradkov agreed that failure to solve them would be “fraught with negative consequences” for Russian-Armenian ties. The Russian law-enforcement bodies have been under fire in recent months for their failure to stop the increasingly endemic violence against darker-skinned immigrants from the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa. The violence is widely blamed on neo-Nazi skinhead groups openly operating in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and other Russian cities. According to Russian human rights organizations, at least seven Armenians and ethnic Armenian citizens of Russia have been killed in such attacks this year. The most recent victim, a 15-year-old boy, was stabbed to death in a town near Moscow in broad daylight on November 12. The Armenian government is facing growing domestic pressure to exert pressure on the Russian authorities. Visiting Yerevan last September, Russia’s Prosecutor-General Yuri Chayka said they have stepped up their efforts to combat and avert racist attacks on Armenians and other non-Slavic immigrants. Chayka said his office now directly oversees criminal investigations into such incidents. Markarian was also cited as complaining that Moscow decision last June to close its main border crossing with Georgia inflicted “serious losses” on Armenian companies trading with Russia. He called in that regard for the reopening of a regular ferry service between Russian and Georgian Black Sea ports that was also heavily used by Armenian exporters. Neither issue was mentioned by the two premiers at a news conference that followed their talks, however. They spoke instead of growing bilateral trade and the completion of the Year of Armenia in Russia. “Our relations, especially in the area of trade and economy, are developing quite dynamically,” Fradkov said, adding that he and Markarian talked about “how to move further forward.” (Photolur photo)
- Aza Babayan in Moscow
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 The Nerssissian school opens in Tbilissi (Georgia) and continues to operate till 1924.
- 1827 Creation of an Armenian printing-house in Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1827 Sultan Mahmud the Second expels about 12000 Armenian Catholics from Constantinople. Some 4000 die of exposure along the way and the remainder are banished to provinces of Asia Minor, which they reach in February 1828.
- 1876 The Turkish government orders the burning of the market of Van and destroys Armenian properties.
- 1894 Publication of the "Struggle" newspaper (Association of Armenian Worker-Revolutionaries).
- 1899 Death of Tigran Yerkat, publicist and public figure.
- 1903 Death of Manvel Qadjooni, historian, geographer, and philologist. He was born in 1823.
- 1903 Death of Manuel Katjooni (historian) in Constantinople. He was born in 1823.
- 1914 Battle of Sarighamish. Destruction of the Turkish Army, that was led by Enver Pasha.
- 1915 United States President Theodore Roosevelt states: The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, such atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and Genghis Khan. It is dreadful that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remains neutral.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of Soviet Russia creates the Commissariat of Armenian Affairs in Moscow. Varlam Avanesov is appointed commissar and Vahan Teryan (poet) is the deputy.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Council of Azerbaijan recognizes Gharabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhichevan to be parts of Armenia.
- 1921 Elections of the first Peasant District and Provincial Unions in Armenia.
- 1923 The Komitas State Conservatory of Music opens in Yerevan.
- 1929 Yerevan's Kanaker radio station starts its broadcasts.
- 1941 Colonel Simon Zakyan heads the new Armenian 89th Rifle Division.
- 1989 The reunification of Artsakh and Armenia is accepted during a joint session of the Parliaments of Armenia and Artsakh. This was followed by the adoption, by Artsakhs legislative body, of a motion to secede from Azerbaijan. The Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan rejected the decision as illegal and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declare? it null and void.
- 1989 The Supreme Council of Mountainous Gharabagh (Artsakh) decides to rejoin Armenia in a joint session with the Armenian supreme Council.
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