July 15, 2002 - 23:10 AMT
ARMENIAN GRAVES SMASHED UP IN RUSSIAN CITY BELORECHENSK
July 14 night, vandalism act was committed in the Central cemetery of Belorechensk City by unknown people supposedly having hooligan motives. As «Yerkramas» newspaper reports with reference to head of the Belorechensk department of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ruben Mendelian, as a result of the incident, according to the preliminary data, 17 tombstones, nine of which were on the Armenian graves are destroyed. At present, the incident is being investigated. The work on the revelation of the crime is under special control.