Arguing that several of its top leaders have been arrested during the July-August public protests in Yerevan and that the party must divert its attention to obtaining their release, the Heritage Party (Zharangutyun) announced today that it would not “systematically” participate in upcoming local elections in Armenia.
Arayik Ordubekyan, a Artsakh Defense Army soldier, was killed yesterday evening by Azerbaijani fire, this according to the NKR Ministry of Defense.
Delegations from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnstria met with Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan yesterday in Stepanakert to mark the 25th anniversary of Karabakh’s independence.