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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

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