ARMENIANS PROTEST AZERBAIJANI AXE-KILLER PARDON IN MOSCOW

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14.09.2012 18:32

Several hundred Armenians gathered at a Moscow square on Friday to
protest against Azerbaijan’s pardon of an army officer who killed an
Armenian officer in Hungary.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this provocative act, which was
designed to disturb the balance in the region,” activist Yury Navoyan
told protesters at a central Moscow site commemorating Russia’s failed
1905 revolution against tsarist-rule, RIA Novosti reported.

The demonstration came two weeks after Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev provoked an international outcry by pardoning Ramil
Safarov after the army officer was repatriated from Hungary on
the understanding that he would serve out his life sentence in his
homeland.

At the rally on Friday, Navoyan, head of the Russian-Armenian
Commonwealth group, hit out at a “cynical” Hungary for concluding the
“bloody” deal to return Safarov to Azerbaijan, but was careful to
highlight Russia’s efforts to resolve the crisis.

Friday’s rally was also attended by the leader of the Liberal
Democratic party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who used the stage to launch
an attack on what he described as a “corrupt” Europe.

“Some money changed hands, and a Hungarian court made its decision,”
Zhirinovsky said, as he waved a fist in the air.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress