EVENTS IN YEREVAN MARK BELARUS INDEPENDENCE DAY

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Embassy of Belarus in Armenia organizes festivities due to its Independence Day. According to a press release, an official reception on the occasion of the Belarus holiday will be held today. July 3 - on the Independence Day, flowers will be laid to monument to marshal, Soviet Union twice Hero H. K. Baghramyan. This year the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is also marked. The war was one against the threat of enslavement and physical annihilation for the Belarus people. In June-July 1944 Belarus was fully liberated. Representatives of many nationalities fought for its independence. These included the best representatives of the Armenian people, many of which are awarded orders and medals, as well as title of Soviet Union Hero for liberation of Belarus. Owing to the resolute actions of the army, guerilla movement the Belarus people preserved its ethnic identity.