in Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/16-12-2021/

On December 16, 2021, a public-scientific session “Society for Peace in Nagorno Karabakh: a year later” was held in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Information on the web sites (in Russian):

• local metropolitanate of Russian Orthodox church – http://mitropolia.spb.ru/news/otdeli/?id=200139
• World Russian People’s Council – https://spbvrns.ru/kruglyj-stol-obshhestvo-za-mir-v-nagornom-karabahe-god-spustya/
• Armenian community of St. Petersburg (more photos) – https://www.armspb.org/post/vrns-16-12-2021

Text of the Resolution – https://crossroadorg.info/en/resolution-16-12-2021-en/

Greetings

Archpriest Fr. Alexander Pelin (St. Petersburg), head of the Secretariat of the St. Petersburg branch of the World Russian People’s Council (WRPC), chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the St. Petersburg diocese of Russian Orthodox church (ROC), candidate of theology

Elena Kirilenko (St. Petersburg), co-chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of WRPC, general director of “Keleanz Medical LLC”

Sergey Melnikov (Moscow), Chairman of the Russian Association for the Defense of Religious Freedom, Doctor of Law, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of ethnography and antronology named by N. Miklouho-Maclay

Hieromonk Poghos (Vardanyan) (St. Petersburg), Armenian Apostolic church in St. Petersburg and the Northwest region of Russia

Reports

Vladimir Kolotov (St. Petersburg), Director of the Ho Chi Minh Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Professor, Doctor of Philosophy – “The application of technologies for changing religious identity in the post-Soviet space”

Fr. Ghevond Temkin (St. Petersburg), priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church in St. Petersburg – “A brief history of the Albanian church from the time of foundation to the X century”

Anush Khurshudyan (Armenia), coordinator of the Department for spiritual and cultural heritage of Artsakh (Karabakh), the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Protodeacon Vasily Vasilik (St. Petersburg/Moscow), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Sretensk Theological Academy – “The destruction of Christian monuments in the XXI century”

Archpriest Konstantin Georgadze (St. Petersburg), rector of the Church of the Shestakov Icon of the Mother of God in St. Petersburg (Georgian Orthodox Church) – “On the problems of preserving the complex of Georgian cave monasteries of David Garendzhi on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border”

Nodar Bakhtadze (Tbilisi, Georgia), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the State University named after Ilya Chavchavadze (Tbilisi)

Maxim Atayants (St. Petersburg), Honored Architect of Russia, St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz – “Reconstruction of the shrines of the village of Karaglukh on the territory of Nagorno Karabakh”

Samvel Shahinyan (Yerevan), Doctor of Architecture, Professor, National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia – “Christian monuments of Karabakh in the Soviet period”

Nikolai Dneprovsky (St. Petersburg), Russian Geographical Society – “The contribution of St. Petersburg scientists to the pre-revolutionary studies of the Transcaucasus”

Vahan Babakhanyan (St. Petersburg), deputy Chairman of the Armenian national-cultural autonomy (community) of St. Petersburg, Chairman of the “Khachmeruk” (Crossroad) public organization, member of the Coordinating Council of Russian-Armenian organizations

Alexey Gunko (Voronezh), editor-in-chief of the journal “Speleology and Spelestology” – “Christian cave complexes of Karabakh and problems of their preservation”