The quartet also closed the final music event of the JapanOC Festival with an appearance by the Tokyo String Quartet.

On the threshold of the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, PanARMENIAN.Net continues publishing stories of Genocide survivors. The stories were provided by the office of U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who initiated the Armenian Genocide Congressional Record as an effort to parallel H. Res. 252, the Congressional resolution he introduced to recognize and commemorate the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. Congressman Schiff is the primary sponsor of H. Res. 252, the Affirmation of the U.S. Record on the Armenian Genocide, which calls on the President and the U.S. Government to properly recognize the atrocities that occurred in the beginning of the 20th century and resulted in 1.5 million deaths, as Genocide.

The resolution states, “The Ottoman authorities planned and executed the unspeakable atrocities committed against the Armenian people from 1915 through 1923.”

Russian parliamentarians, leaders of Russia’s national Diasporas, representatives of analytical institutes are expected to participate.