Mayor of Zelenokumsk of Stavropol Territory O. Kovaleva has addressed the residents on the occasion of 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, reported the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia. The message specifically says, "No people that has been subjected to a genocide can forget the tragedy experienced. It also applies to Armenians, who have become victims of a crime that was committed within half a century - from 1878 to 1923. The Turkish state has attained its goal: only 10% of the population remained in the historical fatherland of Armenians. The fact of the perpetration of the Armenian Genocide was acknowledged and Turkey's responsibility for committing "a crime against humanity" should have been properly established by the international community when it was being committed… The Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Turkey damaged the spiritual and material culture of the people much. In 1915-1916 and the following years thousands of scripts, hundreds of historical and architectural monuments were destroyed, sanctuaries were profaned. The tragedy experienced by Armenians told on all sides of the life and public behavior of the people, being firmly fixed in the genetic memory. The generation that has experienced the genocide and became its immediate victim, as well as the following generations were affected by the Genocide. What can I say on the threshold of that tragic date - April 24, on the eve of the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide? The fate of any nation is not serene and unclouded, no people manages to avoid the pain of loss, attempts of suppression of self-identity, physical annihilation of its best representatives. Maybe, the Russian people will best understand the sorrow of the Armenian people. The pick of the Russian officers and most of the clergy were killed in the revolution and the civil war, the conscious of the nation - the intelligentsia was expelled from the country, the best minds were scattered in the emigration. Within the period of collectivization and repression "the gist of the Russian land" - the peasantry - was dissolved in the melting pot of "the new world". During the Great Patriotic War the matter concerned the physical survival of our people and whether Russians will remain on the earth at all… That is why we can understand the constant pain of Armenians. These wounds will not be healed up either in 90, 100 or even 300 years. We are only able to retain the tragedies experienced in our memory and commemorate all innocent victims…"