Tyumen to Commemorate Armenian Genocide Victims

April 20, 2006 - 15:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A memorial evening on the Commemoration Day of Victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 will be organized by Stroitel palace of national cultures in Tyumen on April 24. The event program includes a story on the historical developments in 1915, an exhibition devoted to national heroes, performance of patriotic songs, declaration of poems of Armenian poets. April 24 is marked in Russia, Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora as the Commemoration Day of Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Russia officially marks the Commemoration Day since 1995, when the State Duma recognized the fact of the Genocide. The date was introduced in Armenia 8 years before. Ritual measures on the occasion will be held on that day worldwide, reports NewsProm.Ru.
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