Moscow Police Chief Major General Oleg Baranov And Garegin Nzhdeh
At the end of January 2022, many news agencies reported that Moscow Police interrupted the screening of a movie depicting the life, hardships, achievements, and execution of our beloved national hero Garegin Nzhdeh. The Union of Armenians of Russia organized and advertised the event several weeks prior to the screening. In other words no effort was made to conceal the time, place, and nature of the gathering based on the logical assumption that Russia has been a so called “Democracy”, since the collapse of The Soviet Union, where freedom of opinion is one of the most basic pillars upon which democracies rest. None of the decision makers of The Union of Armenians of Russia knew that Garegin Nzhdeh has been declared a “Persona Non Grata” in Moscow in particular, and the Russian Federation in general, until Moscow Police Chief Major General Oleg Baranov released a statement indicating that he instructed his officers to shut down the event, based on the Russian Federation C...