ARMENIANS OF SYKTYVKAR TO COMMEMORATE GENOCIDE VICTIMS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians living in Syktyvkar will commemorate the victims of the Genocide. April 24 an action marking the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey will be held in the City Center for National Cultures, Komiinform reported. Those gathered will commemorate millions of the victims of the Genocide of 1915 with a minute of silence. They will lay flowers to the model of the Genocide Victims Obelisk. Komi Head Vladimir Torlopov, Speaker of the State Council of the Republic Ivan Kulakov, Minister of Culture and National Policy of the Region Maria Kuzbozheva are expected to take part in the event. According to the census of the population 2.1 thousand Armenians lived in Komi in 2002, 685 out of them - in the capital.
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