Photos from the protest in London. Only two people were present

[02:39 pm] 06 June, 2006
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A rally of protest was initiated by the Armenian students of Great Britain in connection with the increase of murders, racism combat and hatred of mankind apparent in the Russian Federation. The site of the rally was the territory opposite the Russian Embassy in Great Britain.

“We, the students of Great Britain, express our deepest regret on these events and on the increase of xenophobia in Russia. We call on the Russian authorities to take drastic measures and to punish the initiators in order to prevent suchlike cases in future,” this is a quotation from the students’ statement which was given to the Russian Embassy of Great Britain. The students also claim that “the outcome of racism and xenophobia in the recent years has been very appalling. About 28 foreigners were murdered in 2005 and more than 402 people were beaten and attacked by the racists. They were mainly from Caucasus and Middle Asia including many Armenians. 6 Armenians were killed in Moscow in 2006 because of their nationality.”

Mediamax news agency
5 Jun 06

Yerevan, 5 June: Several dozen people staged a protest rally called
“Stop fascism!” outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan today.

The rally participants protested at recent killings of young Armenians
in Moscow.

The Helsinki committee of Armenia and other nongovernmental
organizations initiated the rally.

“The inaction of the Russian authorities gives us grounds to assume
that fascist groupings are being patronized by certain state structures
of Russia,” Arsen Kharatyan, chairman of the for the development of
science initiative group, said at the rally.

The protest rally had not been authorized by the mayor’s office
of Yerevan.