06 06 13 - ETHNIC ARMENIAN SHOT DEAD IN MOSCOW, ANOTHER WOUNDED

MOSNEWS, Russia- June 11 2006
Two ethnic Armenians have been shot in Moscow on Saturday night, Interfax reported.
One of the men died, the other received injuries.
In late April, a young Amernian-born man was killed by a group of youngsters in a fight at Moscow's central Pushkinskaya metro station.

17-year-old Vagan Abramyants, a student of a Moscow university, was standing on the platform with several friends, when a group of shaved young men dressed in black attacked them, NTV channel said. The >attackers looked like skinheads, members of radical nationalistic movement.

The nation's leading pollster, Yuri Levada, said hate crimes were an outgrowth of deep resentment over migrants and other foreigners who come to Russia for work or to study - some illegally and many from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

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