YEREVAN. – An international conference, which is devoted to the Caucasian front during the First World War, got underway Monday at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in capital city Yerevan.

The two-day conference aims to look into the World War II military operations in the Caucasian front, the presence of refugees, and the episodes of genocide—during war—against the Armenian population in the former Ottoman and Russian Empires.    

The international conference has preceded the opening of the exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.