Russia: Seminary Students Attacked
April 30, 2002 Moscow,
Russia .... [ESD Staff/ANN Staff]
Two students from the Seventh-day
Adventist Church's Zaoksky Theological Seminary were attacked
by a gang of 15 young people April 16 while waiting on a train
platform. Elshan Diabarov and Rustam Ahmedov, both citizens of
Azerbaijan, were taken for medical treatment and later released.
The alleged attackers, all students at a local public high school,
have been caught. It is not clear whether or not the ethnic background
of Diabarov and Ahmedov was a motive for the attack. Russia has
endured an unusual number of hate crimes during April, the anniversary
month of Hitler's birthday.
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