Russia honors the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey
On the occasion of the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey 1915-1922. Electoral and Full Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkinas well as representatives of the Russian diplomatic mission in Yerevan today, April 24, laid a wreath at the monument and flowers at the Eternal Flame at the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex.
Earlier on Sunday, the top leadership of Armenia visited Tsitsernakaberd, where they paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived at the Hill of Remembrance accompanied by the Speaker of Parliament Alena SimonyanaPresident of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturian, also members of parliament and MPs from the right-wing Civil Contract party. They laid flowers at the memorial and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.
The day before, on April 23, the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Yerevan took part in the international action “Garden of Memory”. In his welcoming speech, Sergei Kopirkin drew attention to the fact that in the events that are permissible in the world, the tasks that we have set ourselves for many years – protecting the truth about the Great Patriotic War, preventing the revival and glorification of Nazism – are more relevant than ever. Noting the contribution of the Armenian people to the Great Victory, the Russian diplomat insists that the “sad memory” will play an important role in preserving our common history, the memory of those who, without sparing the world, saving lives from the fascist plague.
We remind you that the successor of the Ottoman Empire, the modern Republic of Turkey, denies the fact of the genocide in Armenia, sharply reacts to the process of international recognition and prosecution for this happens against humanity and uses the methods of investigating the investigation of the case of considering and considering the case of countries.
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in 1995 a resolution “Image of the genocide of the Armenian people of 1915-1922. on its morbidity in Armenia”.