Yura Movsisyan supports Rostov-on-Don Armenians’ decision not to attend match

Armenian national football squad and Russia’s FC Spartak Moscow forward Yura Movsisyan supported the Rostov-on-Don Armenians’ decision not to attend Saturday’s Russian Premier League match between FC Rostov and Spartak. 

Before the game, however, Movsisyan met with representatives of the Armenian community of this Russian city, and autographed all sixty match tickets the Armenians had purchased.   

“The current tense situation in Rostov[-on-Don] should not cast a shadow upon the match. We spoke with Yura and he backed our decision not to go to the game,” Sovsport quotes a representative of the Armenian community of the Russian city.

To note, FC Rostov fan Alexander Terekhov had died on March 28 as a result of a stab wound. Nika Kharchilava and an Armenian, by the name of Garegin Mnatsakanyan, are the two suspects that are detained along the lines of the respective criminal case. And this is why Armenians in Rostov-on-Don are warned concerning possible provocations against them.

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