Russian State Duma Member Offers to Form Structure Similar to ARF Dashnaktsutyun

Former leader of Rodina (Fatherland) party, Russian State Duma member Dmitry Rogozin offered to form in Russia a structure similar to ARF Dashnaktsutyun, he stated in an interview with Russkaya Liniya Internet edition. In Rogozin’s words, the success of the future Russian patriotic movement will be conditioned by the experience of “other persecuted nations”. “Let us take Dashnaktsutyun Party as an example, whose name is translated as Armenian Revolutionary Federation. It was the major anti-Turkish force already during the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire. Armenians were dispersed, but they had Dashnaktsutyun party, which had its branches in different countries, the International Bureau. The center guided various initiatives: political and women’s organizations, youth unions, journalists’ associations. We should form a similar structure,” the Russian MP said, reports the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia.