ArmInfo.The Armenian Embassy in Russia made a statement in connection with the situation around the Sochi airport.
"The Armenian Embassy in the Russian Federation contacted various parties in connection with the situation around the Sochi airport to clarify information and get clarifications. The conversations were held with the relevant structures of Sochi, the airport management, citizens involved in the situation and representatives of the Armenian community. The embassy received explanations of the sides, including from groups of citizens, the local Armenian community and relevant structures. The above issue is in the focus of the embassy's attention, "the Armenian Ambassador's press service informed ArmInfo.
As ArmInfo wrote earlier, for several months now real ethnic cleansing has been taking place among employees at the Sochi airport,- for various reasons, employees with Armenian surnames have been dismissed. Internet resource infoteka24.ru was the first one to voice this problem. According to the report, the staff of JSC "Sochi International Airport" made the following statement. ''We, the staff of <Sochi International Airport>, appeal to you for help. For the second year in our enterprise, there has been a harsh cleansing of personnel on a national basis, namely, by all possible means, employees with Armenian surnames are being dismissed.
Everything started in 2018. The first <purge> was carried out in two services (Transportation Service, Aviation Security Service). They used the method of intimidation and coercion, then, the rest who refused to quit themselves, were banally dismissed by changing the structure of the service, although the size and functionality did not change and the recruitment did not stop and continues to this day. But, during the recruitment of candidates people with the Armenian names are not considered at all or denied without any reason. As a result, more than 70 people were left without work in these two services, including single mothers, the only wet breadwinners in the family, war veterans, staff members who have disabled dependents and others.
To date, the wave of layoffs on a national basis applies to all airport services. At the general service meetings with all the staff, it is announced that workers with Armenian roots (even with Russian surnames) must voluntarily resign before September 1, 2019, in case of disagreement they are intimidated with disciplinary actions and dismissal under the article, some are even offered from one to two salaries for agreeing to resign. Within a few months, the airport's employees were introduced as many disciplinary sanctions as have never been made since the first day of the airport's operation!!! All employees are simply shocked by the arbitrariness and oppression of citizens of the Russian Federation of Armenian origin. And this is all happening in the multinational city of Sochi, where more than a hundred nationalities have lived in peace and mutual understanding for centuries. Even brother of Vladimir Nikolayevich Begiyan, who tragically died on September 1, 2018, while rescuing the passengers of the burning UTair airline that rolled out of the strip, was fired. Begiyan V.N. was posthumously awarded the <Order of Courage>, which was presented to the Begiyan family personally by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation>. The statement posted on the site was signed by 29 people.