Parajanov and Russian Heritage Month in New York

Sergei Parajanov's work will be exhibited as part of the 12th annual Russian Heritage Month in New York from June 17 – July 10. This piece of news has angered a number of Armenians in Armenia and the Diaspora, who point out that Parajanov, who was born in Tbilisi of Armenian parents and died in Yerevan, was not Russian and should not be represented as such.(*) Users on Facebook wrote that it was during the years of the Soviet Union that successful artists and scientists from the 15 republics were represented as Russian, and this practice shouldn't be allowed to continue after the republics achieved independence.