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The Russian TV channels TNT and NTV were not available for the Azerbaijani public till the morning of April 25 as they broadcasted films about the Armenian Genocide, Azerbaijani outlet Baku.ws reports.

According to the outlet, the Azerbaijani cable television boycotted those TV channels.

Yesterday, on the Centennial of the beginning of the Genocide of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire, the TV channel NTV released a documentary “Genocide. The Beginning” relating about the tragedy of the Armenian people. In their turn, the TNT TV channel celebs made a special video to commemorate the Armenian Genocide.

The concert of the project Comedy Woman was recently cancelled in Baku only because its founders and some of its troupe members are Armenians.

The Centennial of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, the first Genocide of the 20th century, is marked on April 24, 2015. More than 60 high-profile foreign delegations arrived in Armenia to pay tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the tragedy. The fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has been recognized by a number of states. The first country to do this was Uruguay in 1965, followed by the Republic of Cyprus (1975), Argentina (2004), Russia (1995), Canada (1996), Greece (1999), Lebanon (1997), Belgium (1998), Italy (2000), Vatican (2000), France (1998), Switzerland (2003), Slovakia (2004), The Netherlands (2004), Poland (2005), Venezuela (2005), Lithuania (2005), Chile (2007), Sweden (2010), Bolivia (2014), Austria (2015). The Armenian Genocide has also been recognized the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches. 43 of 50 U.S. states have recognized and condemned the Armenian Genocide stating April 24 as the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Parliaments of several European countries have adopted laws criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, however, denies the mass killings of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (on the eve of World War I around 2 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire, about 1.5 million Armenians were eliminated during 1915-1923, the remaining half million spread all over the world).

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