President of MIG International Consulting Company Ilya Gerol spoke about the Karabakh conflict at the Russian-Armenian Slovenian University in Yerevan last week.

Gerol started his lecture on Karabakh with a call not to give way to contemporary myths about the situation in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The parliament of the U.S. state of Rhode Island last week adopted a resolution urging President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to recognize the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The resolution also calls upon Nagorno-Karabakh to “continue efforts to develop as a free and independent nation” and praises Artsakh’s “constructive involvement with the international community and its efforts to reach a lasting solution to the existing regional problems.”

On May 9-10 Egyptian Sharm El-Sheikh hosted the the Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, during which, Azeri mass media report, “a heavy blow was delivered at the Armenian machine of state propaganda”.

On May 9 Nagorno Karabakh will celebrate with grandeur the 20th anniversary of Shoushi’s liberation, due to which Nagorno Karabakh stopped being an enclave in 1992.

Immediately after Armenia gained control over Shoushi, the Armenian self-defense forces entered Lachin, May 12-18 of 1992, and solved a strategic task, which was to secure a direct land communication between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

Another deadly shooting incident at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is said to have claimed more lives among Armenian servicemen.

The Armenian Defense Ministry reported on Friday that three Armenian soldiers were killed in gunfire overnight as their car was riddled with bullets on the road between the borderline villages of Movses and Aygepar in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province. It is this area of Armenia that appears most vulnerable to Azerbaijani sniper fire.

Senik slowly opens his military backpack and carefully arranges things inside, not forgetting to take the hygiene stuff, the kitchen accessories and his personal items. Junior sergeant Senik Sargsyan, 22, is spending his last hours at the advanced defense positions in the Hadrut region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Soon he will remember his two-year military service in the comfort of his home in Yerevan, some 440 kilometers from where this comfort is being protected.

April 20 is the date set for the start of nominations in the July 19 presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh. Only incumbent President Bako Sahakyan has so far stated his intention to run for another five-year term in office.

The Azeri cabinet held a meeting a few days ago during which president Ilham Aliyev made another set of radical and bellicose statements.

“Our military capacity is increasing. Constant attention is paid to this area and this will continue. We are creating a powerful military industry and at the same time we are buying and will continue to buy a large amount of military equipment, weapons and ammunition. I’m not talking about weapons of defense.

Thursday, April 12, OSCE is holding a monitoring on the line of contact of Azeri armed forces and the Defense of Army of Nagorno Karabakh Republic; meanwhile the Armenian foreign minister is in Warsaw to discuss the Karabakh issue settlement with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.

Troops marshaled on the ground near Stepanakert have been practicing their marching skills ahead of a triple holiday that Karabakh Armenians are going to celebrate next month.

Soldiers with skin reddened by the spring sun march around the local airport to the accompaniment of an orchestra, making the ground tremble far across the area with their goosestep.