Poroshenko ordered the Foreign Ministry to seek recognition of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
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The head of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, instructed the head of the foreign ministry to seek recognition by the world community of the famine 30-ies as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, reports RIA News.
“I have just signed a presidential decree ... in which, among other things, I instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue work on the recognition by the world community, foreign states and international organizations of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people”, - said the president at an event dedicated to the memory of victims of the Holodomor.
Events with the participation of top officials of Ukraine were held in Kiev near the Museum of Holodomor Victims Memorial. The memory of the dead was honored with a minute of silence.
Ukraine already has a law that recognizes famine 1931-1932. "Genocide of the Ukrainian people." In Moscow, the Kiev authorities regard the actions as an attempt to "politicize history"And introduce" mistrust and hostility in relations between the two countries, embroil the peoples of Ukraine and Russia.
The agency recalls that the famine at the beginning of 30 covered not only Ukraine, but “the Northern Caucasus, the Lower and Middle Volga region, a significant part of the Central Black Earth region, Kazakhstan, Western Siberia, and the Southern Urals.” In total, according to various estimates, then killed from 7-mi to 8 million people (in Ukraine - 3-3,5 million).
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