Tribute - at the memorial of Tsitsernakaberdc
ArmInfo. The co-chairman of the Interparliamentary Commission for Cooperation between the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Ryzhkov and members of the commission attended the memorial of Tsitsernakaberd, accompanied by the co-chairman of the IPC Artashes Geghamyan and former deputy of the Armenian parliament Volodya Badalyan.
According to the press service of the National Assembly, Nikolai Ryzhkov and Russian parliamentarians laid flowers to the Eternal Flame and honored the memory of the Holy Martyrs with silence.
A great friend of the Armenian people, Ryzhkov, said that he knew about the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 from the school days.
He also noticed that it's one thing to hear and read, it's quite another to go to Tsitsernakaberd. "Every delegation arriving in Armenia is obliged to come and bow to this holy place for the Armenian people," Nikolai Ryzhkov stressed.