Damascus-SANA
A documentary exhibition entitled “Maaloula Nikolskoy.. Conversation of Destinies” opened today in the exhibition hall at Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts, on the sidelines of the fifth Syrian-Russian joint meeting to follow up on the international conference on the return of refugees and displaced Syrians.
The exhibition documents, through a series of photographs, the terrorist acts against the monastery of Saint Thecla in the countryside of Damascus and the Nikolo Vasilevsky monastery in the town of Nikolskoye Donbass, and the systematic destruction of churches and their cultural and religious icons and sacred contents in both cities.
The exhibition documented with pictures the forms of terrorism from the detention of the nuns in the monastery of Saint Thecla for a period of 100 days, from 2013 until they were rescued with the children from the orphanage by the Syrian Arab Army and placed in a safe place in Damascus.
In a similar scenario, the exhibition’s pictures showed the destruction of churches and icons in the Donbass, the killing of nuns and refugees in the monastery in July 2022, so that the Russian army was able to rescue and take out the elderly and refugees with children to safe places.
In a statement to SANA, the head of the delegation of the Donetsk People's Republic and Minister of Foreign Affairs Natalia Nikonovna confirmed that what happened in Syria is the same as what happened in Donbass, which confirms that the Ukrainian forces are using the same systematic terrorist method in their work to target the country's culture and civilization and intimidate children and civilians through armed groups that It works to lay mines in homes and infrastructure of major cities.
Archimandrite Matta Rizk, head of the Mar Takla Patriarchal Monastery in Maaloula, explained that terrorism transcended man and reached the stone, which is documented by the pictures in the exhibition, and confirms that terrorism is one in the world because the side is one, pointing out that the will of life is stronger than the culture of death, and who made this The great gharth is able to restore it and breathe life into it again.
And the first archaeologist in Moscow, Leonid Kondrashov, said that this war targets civilization and human cultural heritage and erases ancient history, and our goal is to preserve it and raise awareness of its importance as much as possible, which was translated by the exhibition today, expressing his appreciation for what Russian specialists are doing to preserve the civilization of their country, and joint cooperation with Specialists in Syria, as they are the most important foundations based on the protection and preservation of human and archaeological values and the definition of their importance.
He stressed that the exhibition comes within the framework of the Syrian-Russian alliance in the field of preserving the heritage of the two friendly countries, which is based on the basic principles of preserving it, and focuses on documenting the damage through these paintings, drawing the attention of public opinion to the importance of this ancient heritage, pointing to the similarity in the cases of terrorism that most of them were exposed to. The countries of the world are erasing human civilization and history in order to strip them of their cultural identity, and thus control and manage them according to systematic strategies.
The adviser to the Russian Cultural Center in Syria, Ali Al-Ahmad, pointed out that terrorism targets pluralism and open thought with the aim of stopping cultural production, which in turn activates economic production and societal development, explaining that the joint Syrian-Russian cooperation focuses on confronting the soft cultural invasion that controls the productive and constructive minds and ideas that fortify societies. It preserves its civilization and cultural heritage.
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