Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed Russia's recognition of the 1915 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire as genocide on Tuesday after Turkey's angry protests against the use of the term by President Vladimir Putin.
"These days we remember the victims of one of the most dramatic events in history — the genocide of the Armenian people," Medvedev said in a letter to his Armenian counterpart Hovik Abrahamian. "We mourn those who died a century ago as a result of mass repressions in the Ottoman Empire.
"There is and there can be no justification for crimes against humanity. It is everyone's duty to preserve the truth about that that appalling tragedy and to do everything to ensure that the horrors of the past are never repeated anywhere."
Armenian News
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