Spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry: KGB was established in 1954.

Reference News, November 3 report: According to the Russian "Sovet" website, on November 2, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reminded Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that the KGB was established nearly 40 years after the Armenian genocide during the Ottoman Empire.

She wrote on the social platform "Telegram": "The KGB was established in 1954."

Zakharova added that the KGB was founded nearly 40 years after the Armenian genocide in 1915. These remarks were a response from Zakharova to Pashinyan's accusation that the KGB was involved in historical issues between Armenia and Turkey.

On April 23, Yerevan held a traditional torch procession to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide during the Ottoman Empire. Despite the peaceful nature of the event, the Armenian government deployed a large number of police forces from other regions of the country to Yerevan. (Translated by Han Ziling)

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