HISTORICAL TRUTH SHOULD BE KEY VECTOR OF INFLUENCE ON WIDE SECTIONS OF ARMENIA’S POPULATION – KALININ

YEREVAN, February 27. /ARKA/. There are multi-faceted vectors of
influence on wide groups of the population, and it is necessary to
form the historical truth vector and stick to it, Mark Kalinin, head
of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Yerevan, was quoted
by Novosti-Armenia as saying Friday at the first session of the Club
of Young Eurasian Historians.

“Such events are very important from this point of view,” he
said. The project is organized by Russia’s North-South Political
Analysis Center for Development of Information and Scientific Ties
with Foreign Countries with support from CIS Interstate Humanitarian
Cooperation Fund.

Kalinin passed on to participants of the session greetings from Russian
Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volinkin and said that interaction between
Armenian and Russian civil society organizations has intensified over
the last year.

“The main topic of the event is the 70th anniversary of the victory in
the Great Patriotic War (World War II),” Kalinin said adding that the
ambassador-affiliated public council is already set up and a program
of celebration of the 70th of the victory is already being composed.

Kalinin said 2015 is a landmark
year for Armenians – they will mark centenary of Armenian Genocide.

The first session of the Club of Young Eurasian Historians being
held in Yerevan on February 27 and 28 is aimed at setting discussion
platforms for communication among historians of Eurasian Economic
Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States member countries.

Yulia Yakusheva, executive director of the North-South Political
Analysis Center, on her side, said the session is dedicated to
restoration of historical truth.

she said.

In her words, although the Eurasian Economic Union is an economic
project, it is mainly based on historical and civilizational grounds
and on historical unity.

In her opinion, unbiased comprehensive perception of historical
processes needed for preservation of common humanitarian space,
which exists between Russia and Armenia.

she said. Yakusheva said.

Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan expressed
satisfaction at the organization of such events in Armenia ahead of
celebration of the 70th anniversary in Armenia.

he said.

And this is not only for the fact that more than one million
Armenians fought in this war, he said, but also for many of them
were high-ranking commanders in the Soviet Army and for the outcome
of Stalingrad Battle solved the issue of Turkey’s participation in
the war on Germany’s side, what could mean repetition of the Armenian
Genocide 2015-23.

Hovhannisyan.

Young professionals, historians, sociologists and specialists in
international relations from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia are present at the session.

Round-table discussions and professional master classes will be held
as part of the session. –0—–