Ambassador’s call to rely on Russia
Russian Ambassador to Armenia Vyacheslav Kovalenko today criticized the phenomenon "distortion of general Armenian-Russian historical memory" among the Armenian society at the solemn opening ceremony of plaques of the "Hill of Honor" memorial complex in Gyumri.
"We have the right to remind political figures and ideologists, as well as their motivators reserving themselves the right to distort history, those who turn things around without looking back and those who form peoples' conscience that that working style will lead to disorientation in time and space. We need to remind them the words of ancient philosophers when they said that even gods can't make something that doesn't exist, exist," the ambassador announced. He assured the gathered that Russia is a reliable country for the solution to serious issues of national concern.
The Hill of Honor military memorial complex was established in 1856 by Consul General of the Caucasian Corpus of Russia, General Nikolay Muravyov, and there are 156 Russian officers who died in the 1853-55 and 1877-78 Russian-Turkish wars buried there.
In 2009, Russian Ambassador to Armenia V. Kovalenko renovated the Hill of Honor, and the opening of the Hill of Honor was held by Serzh Sargsyan and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on August 20, 2010.
