Yerevan /Mediamax/. Chairman of the Committee on Public and Religious Organizations of Russian State Duma Yaroslav Nilov sent a message to the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin the Second asking to publicly urge Ukrainian authorities to cease the violence and bloodshed.
“According to the MP, the call may cause action as the blood of the Ukrainian people is also shed because of the interim Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov who has Armenian roots”, RIA Novosti reports.
Yaroslav Nilov notes that “the whole world remembers the Armenian Genocide which happened 100 years ago and the long-suffering Armenian people hasn’t fully overcome all the outcomes of this tragedy”. The Russian MP writes that “the humanity didn’t learn a lesson from the past and now we evidence the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Ukraine”. According to Nilov, what is going on there can in fact be called “genocide”.
A similar letter was also sent to President of World Armenian Congress and Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan, Nilov said.
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