December 7, 2009 - 18:47 AMT
Memory of victims of Spitak earthquake commemorated in Minsk
The funeral ceremony was held on December 7 in the courtyard of the St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Minsk at the Cross-Stone dedicated to the memory of victims of the Spitak earthquake. The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Armenia to Belarus Oleg Yesayan and numerous representatives of the Armenian community in Belarus. The participants laid flowers at the cross stone and kept a minute's silence in memory of victims of the Spitak earthquake. A requiem for the dead was served.