ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MONUMENT IN MOSCOW

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 11 2009
Armenia

10:37 / 09/11/2009A monument commemorating victims of Armenian Genocide
will be reared in Moscow, "Yerkramas" Armenian paper of Russia informs.

According to "Yerkramas", a September 10 plenary sitting of Moscow
Committee for Monument Protection was held in State Duma. The Committee
considered proposal of Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) to set up
a sculptural complex in Moscow for victims of Armenian Genocide in
Ottoman Empire (1915). Armenian side will take over the financial
liabilities.

The monument might be erected in the area near New-Nakhichevan and
Russian Diocese Cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church (at the
crossing of Trifonov Street and Olympic Avenue).