© Photo: The Russian house in Yerevan
Russia's Investigative Committee will initiate a case regarding the desecration of a monument dedicated to the Children of Siege Leningrad in Armenia's Yerevan.
"Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed the central apparatus of the agency to initiate a criminal case on this fact and in cooperation with the Russian Foreign Ministry to establish all the circumstances of the incident," the statement reads.
On Monday, a man threw away the wreaths from the monument to the children of besieged Leningrad.
The monument to the Monument to the Children of Besieged Leningrad was unveiled during a solemn ceremony held at Vahagn Davtyan Park in 2015.