Politician says clashes between Sochi’s Armenians and Chechens not orchestrated May 30, 2012 - 16:01 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - CIS States Institute director commented on the conflict between Armenian population of Russian city of Sochi and Dagestan and Chechnya nationals working at Olympic construction in the city. “I don’t believe any third side to have caused the clashes between the workers and Sochi’s Armenian population,” Kostantin Zatulin told a news conference in Yerevan. According to the Russian politician, “one doesn’t expect high levels of sophistication from construction workers.” Clashes between Armenian and Dagestan nationals have been reported at Sochi’s Adler region for several days. According to official sources, Armenian youth started the fight, while trying to protect Armenian girls from abusive behavior of the Dagestanis. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |