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ARMENIANS OF SYKTYVKAR TO COMMEMORATE GENOCIDE VICTIMS

23.04.2005 05:36

/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.