Difference between revisions 119999534 and 119999535 on dewiki

[[Image:Armeniangenocide deadpeople.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bodies of Armenians killed during the 1915 [[Armenian Genocide]].]]

'''Anti-Armenianism''' (also '''Anti-Armenism''' and '''Anti-Armenian sentiment''') is hostility toward or [[prejudice]] against [[Armenians| Armenian people]], [[Culture of Armenia|Armenian culture]] and the [[Armenia|Republic of Armenia]], which can range in expression from individual [[hatre(contracted; show full)


[[Image:Youthsrusak.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Armenian youths protest Anti-Armenian violence in [[Russia]].]]

== Anti-Armenianism in Russia ==
{{seealso|Anti-national sentiment in Russia}}

A 19th century [[Russia]]n chauvinist, [[Vasili Lvovich Velichko]], who was active during the period when the Russian tzarizm carried out a purposeful anti-Armenian policy<ref>[http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/albanskymif.html "Albanian Myth" (in Russian) / V.A. Shnirelman, "Voyni pamyati. Mifi, identichnost i politika v Zakavkazye", Moscow, Academkniga, 2003]</ref>, wrote:
<Blockquote>"Armenians are the extreme instance of brachycephaly; their actual racial instinct make them naturally hostile to the State".<ref>Benthall, Jonathan (ed.), The best of Anthropology Today, 2002, Routledge, ISBN 0415262550, p. 350 by Anatoly Khazanov</ref></blockquote>⏎
The [[Second Chechen War]] and the associated Chechen terrorism in Russia served as major factors in the grow of [[intolerance]], [[xenophobia]] and [[racism|racist]] violence in Russia, directed in a great part against the people from Caucasus.<ref>[http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9254176 The Economist: Russia and Chechnya: The warlord and the spook]</ref>  These include [[Chechens]], [[Georgian people|Georgians]], [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijanis]] and [[Armenians]].  Six(contracted; show full)* [[White Genocide]]

[[Category:Anti-Armenianism| ]]

[[es:Antiarmenismo]]
[[hy:Հակահայկականություն]]
[[ru:Армянофобия]]
[[simple:Anti-Armenianism]]