Konstantin Zatulin: Armenians were targeted by Young Turks over a  century ago largely due to suspicions of their sympathies toward  Russia

ArmInfo.Today, April 24, Armenia, Russia, and the entire civilized world pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century in the  Ottoman Empire. The uncivilized world doesn't want to know about it. 

Only with this approach  such events  as the mass exodus of the entire Armenian population from Nagorno-Karabakh, captured by  Azerbaijan in 2023 can be celebrated. Konstantin Zatulin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian  Integration, and Relations with Compatriots, made this statement in his address on the occasion of the 111th anniversary of the Armenian  Genocide.

"Interestingly, the countries that have not recognized the Armenian  Genocide include not only Turkey and Azerbaijan, but also Israel. It  turns out that Jewish Holocaust survivors are unwilling to share  their feelings and empathize with other people and nations. And we  witness the consequences of these actions in the crimes that occur  before us today. In 1995, we in Russia decided to recognize April 24  as a Day of Remembrance and Sorrow. It's important to remember that  Armenians were exterminated by the Young Turks more than a hundred  years ago on suspicion of sympathizing with Russia. Sympathy for  Russia to the shame of today's generations continues to be a pretext  for repression and persecution in certain countries, We have reached  a point where the current government in Armenia has embarked on a  path of rupture with Russia and persecutes those who oppose it. It's  no coincidence that those who prevented the candle of remembrance  from being extinguished at the Yerevan Memorial Museum are losing  their jobs.  It's a matter of our honor to prevent this," the State  Duma deputy noted.