MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti) - Police...

"A 17-year-old student from a Moscow high school has been detained in connection with the killing of an Armenian committed last Saturday," a spokesman for the Moscow Prosecutor"s Office said, adding that the teenager had admitted his involvement in the incident.

Vagan Abramyants, a 17-year-old student at the Moscow Academy of Management was attacked and stabbed to death on the platform of Pushkinskaya metro station in the center of the capital at about 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Prosecutors launched a criminal case into the killing, which they said could be racially motivated.

But a source close to investigation said the suspect, who has been identified as a soccer fan, claimed that the victim had insulted his girlfriend in a subway train and he stabbed the man to get even.

"We can now say with certainty that the slaying occurred after a common argument and was not racially motivated," the source said, adding that a group of soccer fans was presumably heading

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