It is too advantageous for some people to stir up hatred towards Caucasians

PanARMENIAN.Net - Riots in Moscow, which have started since the killing of Spartak FC fan Yegor Sviridov, do not subside. The rally, organized on December 11 to commemorate Sviridov, spontaneously transferred into beating of Caucasians. It is noteworthy that the especially active rally participants, who were chanting nationalistic slogans, were extending their arms straight in front of themselves in the Nazi gesture of greeting.

The same day, two Armenian teenagers (born in 1995) were injured as a result of disorders in Moscow. Going out of a café where they celebrated a classmate’s birthday, the teens were assaulted by a crowd of radical extremists. Their friends – two Russian, one Georgian and one Azerbaijani boys – were also heavily injured. Police officers hardly managed to save the boys from the raging crowd.

Starting from December 11, it is too dangerous for people of а non-Slavic look to go out in Moscow. Any person, irrespective of age and sex, can become a victim of nationalists.

Leaders of national diasporas try to prevent continuation of riots, urging people not to give way to provocations and refrain from participating in unsanctioned and spontaneous actions.

Meanwhile, riots are still under way in Moscow. Today, on December 15, a clash took place between several people of Slavic appearance and natives of Northern Caucasus between Kiev Railway Station of Moscow and European trade center. As a whole, around 1,000 people are reported to be detained by police today.

Riots have spread over other cities of Russia – Saint Petersburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don.

A source affiliated with Russian intelligence services told PanARMENIAN.Net that some are of the opinion that the situation is being artificially exacerbated through social networks, with a well-known Movement Against Illegal Migrants (DPNI) behind recent events.

Russian media report that servicemen of interior troops, including those with patrol dogs, have appeared in Moscow city-center. The enhanced security measures will be preserved in Moscow deep into the night of December 16.

Meanwhile, leaders of national diasporas hope that law enforcers will make liable organizers of pogroms, if names of those, for whom it is advantageous to stir up hatred towards Caucasians that have transferred Russian teenagers into potential killers, become known some day.