Before the 2020 Artsakh war, cheesemaker Vardan Shakhanumyan would make a weekly early morning car trip from his home in the village of Verishen, outside Goris in Armenia, to Artsakh to buy milk.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan has congratulated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Evacuation Day, a national Holiday in Syria commemorating the departure of the last French soldier from the country in 1946.
Armenia has declared two days of mourning to commemorate the victims of Sunday’s explosion at Yerevan’s Surmalu Market.