RUSSIAN STATE DUMA MEMBER OFFERS TO FORM STRUCTURE SIMILAR TO ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.05.2006 13:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Former leader of Rodina (Fatherland) party, Russian
State Duma member Dmitry Rogozin offered to form in Russia a structure
similar to ARF Dashnaktsutyun, he stated in an interview with Russkaya
Liniya Internet edition. In Rogozin’s words, the success of the future
Russian patriotic movement will be conditioned by the experience
of “other persecuted nations”. “Let us take Dashnaktsutyun Party
as an example, whose name is translated as Armenian Revolutionary
Federation. It was the major anti-Turkish force already during the
Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire. Armenians were
dispersed, but they had Dashnaktsutyun party, which had its branches
in different countries, the International Bureau. The center guided
various initiatives: political and women’s organizations, youth unions,
journalists’ associations. We should form a similar structure,” the
Russian MP said, reports the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians
of Russia.