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    Emil Lazarian
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    • Categories: 2020

Russia citizens stage protest in front of Georgia embassy in Armenia

News.am, Armenia
19:31, 22.03.2020

A group of Russian citizens of Armenian descent protested in front of the Georgian embassy in Armenia Sunday, A1+ reports.

The issue is that these persons are not able to cross the Armenian-Georgian border by car because of the state of emergency that is declared in Georgia.

One of the citizens, Sofya Khachatryan, informed that more than 300 people, who are Russian nationals, cannot return to their homes in Russia because due to the state of emergency, Georgia has imposed a ban on Russian citizens leaving for Russia via Georgia.

She added that they had also applied to the Russian embassy where they had responded that Georgia had blocked entrance to Russia through its territory, and they could not do anything so far.

They also had held a protest on Saturday, but have yet to receive a response.

Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan told A1+ in this regard that these persons are Russian citizens, and therefore there must be a Russian-Georgian agreement to allow them to go to Russia via Georgia.

Naghdalyan added that they cannot mediate for the citizens of another country.

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Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS