ArmInfo. The terrible, bloody Karabakh conflict brought death and suffering to many innocent people - both Azerbaijanis and Armenians. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced this on February 28 during a briefing on request to comment on who organized the visit of Russian MPsto the anti-Armenian event in Baku.
"Russia has always considered and continues to consider this a huge tragedy. Although this is a well-known position, I still wanted to reaffirm it - our country is making significant, very large, decisive efforts to assist the parties in the search for a peaceful resolution of this conflict. We will continue to devote this the issue is of paramount attention in the context of our policy in the region and the approaches to shaping the Russian course in this direction, "Zakharova stressed. She also noted that the Russian Foreign Ministry was not a co-founder and co-organizer of the event in Baku. And in this context, the Russian diplomat advised asking this question to the direct participants of the event. "The official position of Moscow on this issue is well known, and I repeated it once more," Zakharova summarized. On February 26, famous Russian politicians, scientists and public figures took part in a nationwide march in Baku. Irina Rodnina, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, and Aleksey Zhuravlyov, State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation Mikhail Yemelyanov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children, member of Health Protection Committee Tatyana Tsibziova, Deputy Chairman of the Safety and Anti-Corruption Committee Dmitry Savelyev and Deputy Denis Parfenov. Famous Russian experts Igor Korotchenko, Alexander Shatilov, Alexander Rusnak, Sergey Markov, Darya Grevtsova, Alexey Bychkov and others also take part in the march. The fact of the participation of Russian public and political figures in the Baku event the day before at the plenary meeting of the Russian Federation Council was addressed by RA Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan, expressing bewilderment by this fact, and especially by the fact that members of the Armenia-Russia inter- parliamentary commission attended the event