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DOSSIER: RUSSIA AND ISRAEL ACKNOWLEDGE GENOCIDE.
The Russian Parliament passed a unanimous resolution forward April 22 recognizing the Armenian Genocide as being the "first instance of genocide in this century." The resolution was supported from the Russian Armenian Common wealth Support capital headed by Edik Hovhannisian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). The resolution further declareed Russia' s condemnation of the crime, its official condolences to the Armenian people and exhibited its sympathies to the descendants of survivors living in Russia