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    HORRIFYING PHOTOS IN MOSCOW
    By Ruben Hayrapetian in Moscow

    AZG Armenian Daily
    27/04/2006

    Armenian and Russian intellectuals and renowned clergymen were
    present at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition at Halabian Hall
    of the Ararat Park Hyatt hotel in Moscow dedicated to the Armenian
    Genocide. The presentation of "Four Years Under the Crescent", book by
    Venezuelan writer Rafael de Nogales Mendes, also took place that very
    day. The eyewitness of the Genocide tells about this great tragedy
    with compassion.

    His Holiness Ezras Nersisian, head of the Armenian diocese of New
    Nakhijevan and Russia, made an impressive opening speech. After a
    historic survey into Turkey's past, he said that Turkey's denial of
    the Genocide demands great efforts from us to make the world aware. And
    the exhibition is one of such steps.

    "I am not Armenia, I have no Armenian blood," Italian historian
    Giovanni Guaitai said in excellent Russian, "but I try to be impartial
    while examining the events of 1915. The idea that the Genocide is
    an Armenian-Turkish issue is intolerable. No. It is an issue of the
    civilized mankind." He said he is currently working on a new book -
    memories of an Arabian official who, being a Moslem, managed to remain
    impartial to the extent of questioning Islamic morality. The opinions
    of foreigners are more powerful, the Italian historian underscored.

    Historian and political scientist Natalia Norochinskaya, chairman
    of Foreign Relations Committee at the State Duma, made a pithy and
    impressive speech.

    Firstly she noted that she was brought up in a spirit of love to
    the Armenian nation (her father was a historian and was in friendly
    relations with many of his Armenian colleagues). Secondly, she used
    the Armenian genocide to portrait the present-day Christian-Moslem
    confrontation in Russia, which is not in favor of the former. While
    talking with deputies of the European parliament or "liberal"
    Western thinkers in general, one faces stiffened ideas and way of
    thinking: they do not know history and do not want to know and tend
    to fragmentize it. As a result we have injustice towards Christian
    Serbs and establishment of another Moslem state in troubled Balkans.

    Norochinskaya thinks that the West, taking advantage of Russia's
    weakness, implements the disastrous policy for the Christian world in
    the South Caucasus. Thus, the lesson of the Armenian Genocide should
    awaken the Western thought.
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