As some circles attempt to limit concerns about the increasing number of attacks on Armenians in Russia, Zarchka at Life Around Me says that they continue to occur. One of the attacks was on popular Russian singer Jasmine although somewhat ironically, although her attackers identified her as an ethnic Armenian, she apparently denies this. Nevertheless, she does look Armenian, and many still believe that her name is actually Hasmik.

On Tuesday the emergency service received the call from the settlement Zhukovka. The doctors arrived to the place found there the well-known singer, whom at first they could not recognize because of the numerous abrasions on her face.

The girl was taken to the hospital, where after examination she was diagnosed to have closed craniocerebral injury, the break of the back of nose, plural hematomas and asthenic syndrome. The singer was in the deep psychological shock.

Jasmine told to the doctors that she had been beaten for two days; however, she refused to talk to the journalists. After rendering the first aid to the singer, the physicians sent telephone message into the militia, since, judging by the nature of injuries, they could have criminal origin. At the present moment the police conduct investigation on the fact of causing serious damages, criminal case is not filed so far.

Anyway, whether Jasmine is Armenian or not is irrelevant. What is important, however, is the fact that attacks on anyone that even resembles someone from the South Caucasus or Central Asia continue. Unfortunately, Zarchka has some more bad news in this regard as well. On 2 July, two Armenians were attacked by a gang with knives on the metro.

Luckily they both were injured, one from the head, the other from the neck, and the nationalists couldn’t manage to complete their hectic mission. But can we hope that will be the case in the future? One of them is said to be arrested, but they are dime a dozen such, and the hemorrhage is supposed to be continued. What will be next? Shall we wait idle by to see that?

I chatted to Nessuna over at di cavoli e di re via ICQ about Zara’s post earlier, and she’s also upset by this continuing wave of attacks. Bear in mind that the press here has largely been full of statements from the Armenian Government attempting to play down the incidents. Now, imagine what they’d say if even a fraction of these incidents were occuring anywhere else, and especially in Georgia or Turkey.

For more posts on the problem of such racist attacks by Nessuna, who seems eager to see more demonstrations staged outside the Russian Embasy in Yerevan such as this one pictured here and here, see here. Zara’s post is here.