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    AZG Armenian Daily #211, 19/11/2005


    Concern

    'SKINHEADS BECOME AGGRESSIVE WHEN IN A GANG'

    "At first I felt sudden pain at the back of my head. I turned around and saw
    a group of violent teenagers coming on me. Trying to handle the situation I
    blocked their punches but seeing there was no place to retreat I took the
    offensive. Thank God I had some knowledge in taekwondo," tells Armenian
    citizen Bagrat Poghosian, 30, who was attacked in Moscow underground because
    of being dark-haired.

    Late at night at around 11 pm, a big group of shaved-headed teenagers in
    black jackets and boots entered the carriage. Not to get into trouble Bagrat
    moved to a corner and stood with his back to the young passengers.

    "From one station to the other," Bagrat tells, "I was using my fists. But
    then I felt that my fingers ach and grabbed the handrail now defending
    myself from the knife strokes of these suckers with my legs. When the
    carriage stopped at the next station both the frightened passengers and
    these drivellers got out. I saw two man lying on the carriage floor. As TV
    informed the next night, one of them was an Azerbaijani, the other a Tajik.
    They both were barely alive. Getting out to the waiting hall I moved to the
    escalator and just that moment I felt pain on my left hand. Tapping the
    hurting spot I found my hand in blood; I did not even feel I was stabbed.
    That very moment a policeman came up to me, 'Were they also aggressive to
    you?', 'Just the contrary,' I replied. Shortly, almost all police chiefs of
    the region gathered, and they tried to persuade me to cover this case up.
    Frankly speaking, I would agree as I was not the defeated side but the
    representatives of the prosecutor's office and federal security and the
    policemen could do nothing."

    Bagrat was taken to hospital and his wound was sutured. "The condition of
    the Azeri and Tajik victims was even worse, and they underwent hours-long
    operations on their bones. But they both avoid legal process fearing
    difficulties."

    "And are you not afraid," I ask Bagrat. "Those so-called skinheads are
    impudent only when acting in a gang, but when they are alone they are humble
    as sheep. Most of them are teenagers from poor families who are being used
    by nationalistic circles. They have 5 lawyers."

    "How many do you have?"

    "None. But to avoid provocation and pressure I turned to Muscovite lawyer
    Simon Tsaturian. Even if those skinheads are temporarily jailed that would
    be relief."

    I met Simon Tsaturian. Regrettably, the experienced lawyer gets more and
    more "specialized" in such cases with involvement of Armenian citizens.

    "Such incidents," he says, "are increasingly taking on political hue. The
    fact that all three victims were foreigners means that their only fault was
    in being swarthy and dark-haired.

    "Situation in Russia is very contradictory. On One hand nationalistic groups
    revolt against "illegal" influx of all kinds of colored people, on the other
    hand, the authorities do nothing to settle the issue by means of laws. I
    think it's time to open an organization to protect rights of national
    minorities and engage both specialists and influential Armenians from
    different fields. I think the Armenian embassy can do an essential part in
    defending Armenians in Russia."

    "In our fight with skinhead gangs we need cooperate with all healthy forces
    of Russia," Dr Simon Kakhian, spearhead of "Protection of Rights: 21st
    Century" movement, says. He thinks that the experience of Armenian
    communities in struggle against the skinhead gangs in some regions of Russia
    can teach certain things. For instance in the Saratov region the Armenians
    make up mobile groups of physically strong youth on days of the highest
    activity of nationalist gangs (such as Adolph Hitler's birthday) that
    protect local Armenians from possible violation.

    In his TV appearance Bagrat Poghosian also expressed his gratitude to those
    Russians helped him during the incident.

    By Ruben Hayrapetian in Moscow
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