The top leadership of Armenia on March 5 paid tribute to the memory of National Hero of Armenia, first defense minister, Commander (Sparapet) Vazgen Sargsyan in the Yerablur Military Pantheon.

Whenever you drive along Abbeyhill at the foot of the Royal Mile, you pass a very unusual single storey sandstone building with cyrillic lettering above the doorway.

Armen Ashotyan, Vice President of the Republican Party of Armenia, the former ruling party, condemns the incident that took place between members of the Restart initiative and public activist Narek Malyan.

She said that the case is launched by the criminal code’s article on disorderly conduct committed by a group of people.

The story was revealed by an Iranian media outlet, placing Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Buniad Huseynov in an embarrassing situation.

Any attempt of solving issues with violence in Armenia must receive a strict legal counteraction, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Facebook.

Iran is ready to support the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, IFP News reported.

President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and the presidential staff are holding the last working day at a residence located in the 47 Mashtots Avenue.

During the period from February 24 to March 2 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact nearly 200 times by firing more than 3000 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions.

The Guardian has published an article headlined ”Monumental loss: Azerbaijan and ‘the worst cultural genocide of the 21st century” about the demolishment of Armenian cross-stones in Azerbaijan.