Russian Embassy: We mourn with the Armenian people on Armenian  Genocide Remembrance Day

ArmInfo. The Russian Embassy in Armenia expressed its condolences to the Armenian people on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

"We mourn with the Armenian people on Armenian Genocide Remembrance  Day," reads a post by the Russian embassies on social media.

On April 14, 1995, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the  Russian Federation adopted a statement "On Condemnation of the  Genocide of the Armenian People in 1915-1922." It stated that it was  adopted based on irrefutable historical facts testifying to the  extermination of Armenians in Western Armenia from 1915 to 1922. It  also noted that the physical extermination of the fraternal Armenian  people in their historical homeland was committed with the goal of  creating conditions for the destruction of Russia. The State Duma  condemned the perpetrators of the extermination of Armenians,  expressed sympathy for the Armenian people, and recognized April 24  as Genocide Remembrance Day.

Furthermore, on April 24, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin  participated in a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the  Armenian Genocide, which took place at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial  Complex. In his speech, the Russian head of state stated that the  events of 1915 shocked the entire world, while in Russia they were  perceived as a personal tragedy, noting that hundreds of thousands of  defenseless and homeless Armenians had received refuge in Russia and  were saved. The president also recalled that it was Russian diplomacy  that secured international condemnation of the violence against the  Armenian people. At the initiative of Foreign Minister Sergei  Sazonov, as early as 1915, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom  issued a joint statement explicitly calling the events a crime  against humanity and civilization.