The clashes between Cossacks and Armenians might have been provoked by a third party not to let the mass actions of the Armenian Diaspora planned next to the Turkish Consulate General in Novorossiysk April 24, the Yerkramas newspaper of the Armenians of Russia reported. Due to the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide the Kuban Armenian Diaspora plans numerous events. These include a rally next to the Turkish Consulate General, opened in Novorossiysk this year. After the occurrence the Novorossiysk authorities will most probably refuse authorizing the event, justifying their decision with taking care of the law and order in the city. It should be reminded that according to various assessments from 100 to 200 Cossacks have made pogroms in one of the Novorossiysk districts on 22 March. Ethnic Armenians were attacked, as well as cars and commercial buildings owned by them. An incident in a café in the city on night of March 21-22 caused the conflict. At the time Cossacks headed by city Cossack Society ataman Vladimir Petrushin approached a group of young people, composed of Armenians and Greeks, who were celebrating a birthday. The ataman got serious bodily injures in the course of the subsequent skirmish. He was operated at the city hospital N1 and it there at present. Physicians assess his state as stable.