Yanis Sarkisov, the man charged with the murder of Zaruhie Petrosyan, was found guilty and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
The book, “Post-Conflict Recovery of Azerbaijani Territories” was launched in Baku today and is the work of editor-in-chief of the Caucasus and Globalization Scientific Journal Nazim Muzaffarli and director of the Caucasus Strategic Studies Institute Eldar Ismayilov.
Turkey’s Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, now in Baku on an official visit, sated yesterday that Turkey is ready to extend support to the Azerbaijani armed forces. Yilmaz told reporters that a bilateral strategic cooperation agreement had been signed between Ankara and Baku.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck Armenia today at 12:30 p.m., 10 km to the west of Garni. The earthquake measured 5 on the Richter scale at the epicentre. The quake measured 3-5 in Yerevan and Abovyan. It was followed by two aftershocks at 12:31 and 12:32.
Der-Boghossian says he wasn't sexually molested as a child.