The Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) today marks a jubilee. Founded five years ago the Union replaced several hundreds of small national organizations, which engaged in preserving the national Armenian culture in Russia to the best of their abilities and as far as possible. As UAR President Ara Abrahamyan said, “from the moment of the creation of an all-Russian national NGO a new phase referring to the strengthening of centuries-old traditions opened in the life of Armenian Russians.” In his words, the Union “has the complicated task to promote integration of hundreds of thousand of new migrant Armenians from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia into the linguistic, social, economic and cultural environment of Russia.” “Simultaneously our goal is further strengthening of the relations between Russia and Armenia,” Ara Abrahamyan emphasized. The summit of the program of celebration of the jubilee will be today’s concert of Armenian song and dance ensemble at the International House of Music in Moscow, the Trud newspaper reported.
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