By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A 19-year-old ethnic Armenian was stabbed to death in a commuter train near Moscow. Lawyer Simon Tsaturian told Interfax on Tuesday that a group of young men attacked Artur Sardarian, a permanent resident of the town of Pushkino, in a commuter train northeast of Moscow in the evening of May 25, stabbing him many times. Quoting eyewitnesses, the lawyer said that the attackers were shouting \"Glory to Russia!\" (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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