YEREVAN, April 23 – RIA Novosti. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin honored on Thursday in Yerevan in memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide, reported the press service of the diplomatic mission.
“the Twenty-third of April on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin and military and military-air attaché at the Embassy of Andrey Grischuk in the memorial complex Tsitsernakaberd and laid a wreath at the monument of the 12 tilted basalt slabs, as well as flowers to the Eternal flame,” – said in a statement posted on the Embassy page in Facebook.
it is also noted that the heads of diplomatic missions and military atasate a minute of silence in memory of the victims of this terrible tragedy in the history of the Armenian people.
the Day of memory of victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire is marked on April 24.
In the late XIX – early XX centuries, the Ottoman Empire carried out regular prosecutions and persecutions of Armenians. In particular, in 1915, according to some historians, killed more than 1.5 million Armenians. The fact of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire was recognized by 23 States, as well as by the European Parliament and the world Council of churches. The Russian state Duma in 1995 adopted a resolution “About the condemnation of the Armenian genocide 1915-1922 years in its historic homeland — in Western Armenia”.
Turkey has traditionally rejected the accusations of genocide and extremely sensitive to criticism from the West on this issue. In Ankara insist on the rejection of the term “genocide” in relation to the events of 1915, stating that the victims were the Armenians and the Turks. Turkey also called for the establishment of an international Commission of historians to study the country’s archival documents to develop an objective approach to the events of the First world war.
