With some unknown reasons, the 15 years old Armenian boy was killed on the threshold of the international day of tolerance. Does it mean, that killing a foreigner is still considered a normal phenomenon, or if not a heroic act in Russia? After all, it didn’t start only yesterday, but before the revolution of 1917, when the slogan “Kill the Jews, save Russia” didn’t give rise to any doubts. Today only the nationality can be changed in this slogan, and it can be used without raising any indignation. Separate opinions of writers or publicists, of course, do not count, as the ideologists of “Russia for Russians” hardly ever read them.
If the Russian Federation doesn’t need allies in the Caucasus, then this matter can at least be fixed without killing innocent people. Or else Russia has got into the habit of spreading fear all around, so that even today, in the XXI Century it hasn’t given up its old methods. Organizing cultural events within the frames of the Armenian Year in Russia is hardly timely in such conditions. Thereupon, another question rises; how can a conscript, feeling hatred to the representative of another nationality, be sent to serve in the 102 Russian Military Conscript Base? Who can guarantee, that none of the soldiers will decide to open fire on the local population? Maybe, this is a little exaggerated, but the Armenians have many times believed in the “brotherhood with other nations”, but today we must be ready to everything.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RA has appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the request of carrying out most operative investigation of the case of the 15 years old Armenian citizen, murdered in Russia. According to the acting press-secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs RA, Vladimir Karapetyan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RA is keeping the eye on the situation and hopes that the murderers will be arrested in the nearest future.
The RF Ministry of Internal Affairs, to our delight, responded at once. “The RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs publicly condemns this and other crimes, committed out of nationalism. We will press for a detailed investigation and will do our best to bring the offenders to account. Xenophobia is far uncharacteristic of our nation, and of the basis of Orthodoxy and is widely condemned by Russia”, the official representative of the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs Michael Kaminin announced.
In contrast to the statement made by the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Director of the Federal Migration Service Vyachislav Postavnin announced that his country mustn’t tolerate “ethnic enclaves” in its territory, where the foreigners “may cause inconvenience for the native population”. He thinks that the number of the foreigners living in any part of Russia must not exceed the 17-20% of the population. “In case the number of the migrants exceeds this limit, it may arise discomfort or dissatisfaction of the local population”, stated Postavnin in an interview with the Russian Office of BBC.
Earlier, on the occasion of unprecedented political conflicts between Moscow and Tbilisi and inter-ethnic disorders in different parts of the country, President Vladimir Putin spoke about the need of “protecting the native population”. Only the whole trouble is that, it is hard to define who is considered native population in a country, where there are about 100 nations and national roots. We like to cite the USA as an example regarding its attitude to the national minorities. In the States they do not have this notion. They are all citizens of the United States, and for calling somebody “Niger” or “Latino” one can be seriously penalized. It is obvious that Russia is not America, but in this case, one should not speak about democracy and human rights.
