The most we can expect from the meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents in Sochi on Sunday is lower probability of a new war in the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict zone, Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told Azatutyun.am.

By killing Armenian prisoner Karen Petrosyan, the Azeri army has proved once against that it is a medieval barbarous gang, preferring not to fight in the battlefield but to slaughter a sleeping soldier or a helpless prisoner, Nagorno-Karabakh's Defense Army said on Saturday.

 Russian President Valdimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Sochi on Saturday.

 Aug 3-9 Azerbaijan broke its cease-fire regime with Nagorno-Karabakh over 3,000 times. The Azeris fired almost 60,000 shots at Nagorno-Karabakh's positions.  

 On Friday evening the Azeris fired at a car in the village of Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, Tavush region, Armenia.

 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have completed their meeting in Sochi.

 We are very concerned over situation along the line of contact, and as you see the situation is not frozen at all, U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick told the Voice of America.

Akram Aylisli, whose Stone Dreams novella has caused scandal and anti-Armenian hysteria in Azerbaijan, has gone from Azerbaijan to Turkey.

Armenia's Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and a group of Armenian MPs visited the frontline of Nagorno-Karabakh's army on Saturday.

 Leading to a deadlock the negotiation process through his destructive policy, acting contrary to the documents signed and commitments made by himself, by racist statements based on primitive world view, making his country a synonym for blossoming corruption and authoritarianism in the international arena, and just recently failing in military operations which were a result of the subversive acts planned by himself, the head of Azerbaijan is unsuccessfully attempting to strut in social networks, where he is getting an adequate response, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharian says in his comment on the latest statements by the Azerbaijani President.

We are shocked by the murder of Karen Petrosyan in Baku, the villager of Tavush, and we express our condolences to his relatives and beloved ones, Spokesperson of Armenia's Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan said in an interview with the radio "Liberty."

 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ought to punish Azerbaijan for vicious murder of Karen Petrosyan, a captured Armenian civilian, Paruyr Hayrikyan, Leader of the Union for National Self-Determination told reporters, on 9 August. 

 Deputy Defense Minister of NKR, Head of the Union of Artsakh Freedom-Fighters, Major General Samvel Karapetyan has disseminated a statement suggesting that unlike Artsakh's Defense Army, the Azerbaijani army is incapable of any large-scale operation, even the most promising one. 

 For Moscow, Georgia is a tool, Armenia is a way, and Azerbaijan is a prize, says famous U.S. analyst Paul Goble in an interview with Voice of America. 

Azerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus, who is charged with high treason, has disseminated a statement saying that the world must know what a bloody tyranny is reigning in the CoE chair-country Azerbaijan, according to Azerbaijani media.  On 30 June, Leyla and her husband Arif Yunus were arrested on fabricated charges, including high treason. 

 The enemy breached the ceasefire on the Armenian - Azerbaijani border for 20 times overnight, by firing 1400 shots at Armenian positions from weapons of various calibers. In response, the Armenian party opened fire 11 times making 86 shots. No casualties are reported on the Armenian side.

 Upsurge in tension on the Line of Contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijan forces and on the Armenian and Azerbaijani border is a result of the Ukrainian crisis' impact on the entire region. The statement came from Ahmet Davutoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey, Anadolu reports. 

 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's statement  is targeted to the internal audience of Azerbaijan only, Laszlo Kemeny, Professor of Political Science (Hungary), told ArmInfo.

 Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will meet on 10 August in Sochi with participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Novruz Mammadov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration says in a tweet.

 Karabakh armed forces prevented another sabotage attempt by the Azerbaijani forces overnight. A group of saboteurs tried to penetrate into the Karabakh's territory in the area of Hadroud and in the southeast (near Martuni) approximately at 4:20am on 9 August, according to the NKR Defense Army.