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Armenians to Receive Over 20,000 St. George Ribbons for Victory Day
© RIA Novosti
17:58 30/04/2014
YEREVAN, April 30 (RIA Novosti) ` More than 20,000 black-and-orange
St. George ribbons will be handed out in Armenia to commemorate the
69th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the president of an
Armenian historical club has said.
`The overall number of St. George ribbons, handed out during the years
when the event was held in the republic, has exceeded 60,000,' Lilit
Asoyat, who heads the Victoria Historian Club, said during a video
link discussing the upcoming event.
Armenia held the first such St. George Ribbon campaign in 2011 at the
initiative of a youth organization devoted to developing
Russian-Armenian relations. Last year, more than 500 people joined the
commemorative event.
Some 600,000 people from Armenia, with a population of 1.2 million at
that time, were conscripted into the Red Army during the war to
repulse the Nazi invasion, with 107 being awarded the prestigious
order Hero of the Soviet Union. `This is a feather in the republic's
cap,' Asoyat said.
The first annual St. George's Ribbon campaign was launched by RIA
Novosti in 2005. This year, the event will be run by the Rossiya
Segodnya International News Agency together with over 100 media
outlets globally.
On the eve of Victory Day, people will pin black-and-orange ribbons to
their clothes and cars to commemorate the Soviet victory in the Great
Patriotic War as a sign of eternal gratitude to the veterans who saved
the world from Nazism.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140430/189491130/Armenians-to-Receive-Over-20000-St-George-Ribbons-for-Victory.html
© RIA Novosti
17:58 30/04/2014
YEREVAN, April 30 (RIA Novosti) ` More than 20,000 black-and-orange
St. George ribbons will be handed out in Armenia to commemorate the
69th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the president of an
Armenian historical club has said.
`The overall number of St. George ribbons, handed out during the years
when the event was held in the republic, has exceeded 60,000,' Lilit
Asoyat, who heads the Victoria Historian Club, said during a video
link discussing the upcoming event.
Armenia held the first such St. George Ribbon campaign in 2011 at the
initiative of a youth organization devoted to developing
Russian-Armenian relations. Last year, more than 500 people joined the
commemorative event.
Some 600,000 people from Armenia, with a population of 1.2 million at
that time, were conscripted into the Red Army during the war to
repulse the Nazi invasion, with 107 being awarded the prestigious
order Hero of the Soviet Union. `This is a feather in the republic's
cap,' Asoyat said.
The first annual St. George's Ribbon campaign was launched by RIA
Novosti in 2005. This year, the event will be run by the Rossiya
Segodnya International News Agency together with over 100 media
outlets globally.
On the eve of Victory Day, people will pin black-and-orange ribbons to
their clothes and cars to commemorate the Soviet victory in the Great
Patriotic War as a sign of eternal gratitude to the veterans who saved
the world from Nazism.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140430/189491130/Armenians-to-Receive-Over-20000-St-George-Ribbons-for-Victory.html