Bill on establishing responsibility for not recognizing Armenian Genocide conducted by Turkey in 1915 is introduced in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Sergey Mironov, Head of Fair Russia party said." Just now we have introduced a bill on establishing responsibility for not recognizing the fact of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey in 1915", Mironov wrote in Twitter, Russian mass media report.
It was informed earlier, that the faction intended to bring in a bill, which proposes to establish responsibility for denying the Armenian Genocide.
The bill is introduced into the State Duma at the background of the incident with the Russian warplane SU-24, which was shot down by the Turkish F-16 in Syria on the border with Turkey on Tuesday. The pilots managed to catapult but one of them was shot in the air. Pentagon has officially confirmed that the Russian plane was shot down over the territory of Syria.