A memorial evening entitled “I Remember and Demand” was held in the Central House of Writers in Moscow Thursday. The event commemorated the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.  

The organizers of the event were the Russian-Armenian Cooperation (RAC) and the international project “Musicians for Peace”.

The event was attended by the Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin, Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Galust Sahakyan, Leader of Spravedlivaya Rossiya (Just Russia) Party Sergey Mironov and Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

Diplomats, deputies, party members, as well as representatives of the Diaspora and NGOs delivered speeches at the event.