We mourn together with Armenian people on Day of Remembrance of  Victims of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire - RF Embassy in  Armenia 

ArmInfo.  The Russian Embassy in Armenia shared a publication in connection with the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

"We mourn together with the Armenian people in connection with the  Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the  Ottoman Empire," the Russian Embassy said in a publication on social  networks.

On April 14, 1995, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia  adopted a statement "On the condemnation of the genocide of the  Armenian people in 1915-1922." It stated that it was adopted on the  basis of irrefutable historical facts testifying to the extermination  of Armenians in the territory of Western Armenia in 1915-1922.

The document, in particular, recalls that, on Russia's initiative,  the great European powers back in 1915 qualified the actions of the  Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people as a crime against  humanity. It also notes that the physical destruction of the  fraternal Armenian people in their historical homeland was committed  with the aim of creating conditions for the destruction of Russia.

The State Duma condemned the organizers of the destruction of  Armenians, expressed sympathy for the Armenian people and recognized  April 24 as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide.

On April 24, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a  ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which  took place at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. In his speech,  the head of the Russian state stated that the events of 1915 shocked  the entire world, and in Russia they were perceived as their own  grief, noting that hundreds of thousands of defenseless and homeless  Armenians received refuge on Russian territory and were saved.

The President also recalled that it was Russian diplomacy that  achieved international condemnation of the violence against the  Armenian people - on the initiative of the Minister of Foreign  Affairs S.D. Sazonov, already in 1915, Russia, France and Great  Britain in a joint statement directly called what happened a crime  against humanity and civilization.