MOSCOW. – Duty of every citizen of Russia of the Armenian descent is to sign under the call for the Russian State Duma to adopt a bill criminalizing denial of Nazi crimes and the Armenian Genocide in 1915-22 in Turkey, head of Hamshen Armenian scientific information –cultural center Artavazd Tulumjyan said.

“We had to raise the issue sooner or later,” he told Yerkramas Russia-based Armenian newspaper. “We, as one of the hugest Armenian communities in the world, cannot stay aside. Since the process started and increases, I believe it is the duty of every Armenian in Russia to sign under the call.”

To note, the action was initiated by the Union of Armenians in Sochi and supported by Assyrians, Kazaks and Greeks in Russia.