ARMENIANS OF RUSSIA ABLE TO RESIST ANTI-ARMENIAN ACTIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians have both intellectual and financial capacities to resist to anti-Armenian actions, however they do not use these, editor-in-chief of the Yerkramas newspaper of Armenians of Russia Tigran Tavadian stated in the course of an on-line interview at OpenArmenia.com. In his words, in no circumstances violence should be responded by violence, on the contrary violence should be counteracted by legal means. He also added that self-defense also refers to legal means. "However, the most important, if those destroyed graves at the cemetery in Krasnodar or those who arranged pogroms of Armenian cafes and shops in Slavyansk-on-Kuban were properly punished in the form of imprisonment or a considerable money fine, their followers would have pondered before organizing an anti-Armenian action," Tigran Tavadian accentuated. According to the information provided by Tavadian, those, who arranged pogroms, got merely conditional sentences and no one compensated material damage to the victims. In his words, to that end a competent lawyer needs to be hired and paid well, as well as other mechanisms of affecting courts should be enabled.