MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE SET UP IN MOSCOW
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 9 2009
Armenia
19:44 / 09/09/2009The Commission for Monumental Art of the Moscow
City Duma held a sitting on September 8. The Commission discussed
the issue of creating a sculptural composition in commemoration of
the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, reported Regions.ru.
The press service of the Moscow City Duma reported that the proposal
was advanced by the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR), which pledged
to sponsor the work.
The Commission considered it advisable to recommend the Moscow Duma
to put the proposal on the List of proposals for the creating works
of monumental and decorative art. The sculpture may be unveiled in
the territory of a new cathedral of the Novonakhichevan Diocese of
the Armenian Apostolic Church. The cathedral is being constructed at
the crossroads of Trifonovskaya Street and Olimpiysky Avenue.
From: Baghdasarian