On 11–12 November, Moscow hosted the international scientific conference “1944 in the History of the Second World War,” organized by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Military-Historical Society. The conference brought together prominent scholars from Russia, CIS countries, Europe, the United States, China, India, and Brazil. Academician Ashot Melkonyan, Director of the NAS RA Institute of, delivered a presentation titled “The Armenian People’s Contribution to the Battles for the Liberation of Eastern Europe in 1944.” Addressing the issue of the ongoing destruction of Soviet military monuments in certain countries, he noted that this situation has long been evident in the territories of Artsakh occupied by Azerbaijan from 2020 to 2023. There, in addition to numerous Armenian historical and cultural monuments, memorials to Armenian soldiers who fought in the Great Patriotic War have been destroyed, including those dedicated to Marshal Hovhannes (Ivan) Baghramyan, Marshal Hamazasp Babajanyan, Marshal Sergey Khudyakov (Khanperyants), and Nelson Stepanyan, a Shushi native and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

During discussions on the second day of the conference, Melkonyan underscored that some historians and politicians, through misleading or deliberately distorted interpretations of the wartime activities of Armenian national figures such as Dro and Nzhdeh, attempt to foster an atmosphere of Armenophobia in Russia and other countries.