YEREVAN. – The natives of Armenia have not been detained or affected in Moscow riots, representative of the Armenian police told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Ashot Aharonyan, spokesperson for the police, noted that they are оccasionally receiving the data on incidents involving citizens and natives of Armenia through Armenian police representation in Russia.

The death of Yegor Shcherbakov sparked mass protests in the southern district of Moscow. The incident made local residents take to the streets. They marched to the police department urging to find and punish the attacker and toughen migration laws. Nationalists and skinheads attacked the local trade centers, around 400 people were detained. Around 2,000 migrants were detained for further deportation.