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18 November 2000 - 15:38 AMT

CANDIDATES TO CITY DUMA OF KRASNODAR SPEAK ABOUT SILENT OCCUPATION OF NORTH CAUCASUS BY ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT

18.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. A candidate to the City Duma of Krasnodar Gennadiy Len who is also one of the leaders of local Cossacks stated in one of his pre-election articles that “he was the first who harshly protested against the “silent” occupation” of the North Caucasus by the Armenian government. He also said he was the first who managed to do the utmost to stop the charter flights from Yerevan and led the Cossacks groups for “cleaning” the airdromes, railway stations, hotels, streets from uninvited guests from Caucasus.”
Mediamax was informed from the editorial staff of “Yerkramas” Armenian daily which is published in Krasnodar that regional mass media spreads a huge number of publications where the parliamentary candidates asserts that pursuation by the official authorities of Armenia of a purposeful policy aimed at inhabiting the Southern Russia by Armenians from Armenia and Karabakh has a goal to seizuring these territories in the future. –0–
Elections of a governor, heads of local self-government structures and legislative bodies of a number of cities and regions will be conducted in Krasnodar region on December 3. –0–