No to War! demonstration took place in Yerevan on Friday.  

The Azeris tried to switch from sniper war to guerilla warfare but failed, Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said during a meeting with students of the Vazgen Sargsyan Military Institute.

 Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish candidate for Turkish presidency, has promised to recognize the Armenian Genocide if elected President.

 For two days already Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan has been visiting Tavush region's villages suffering from Azeri bombardments.

The ethnic minority situation in Azerbaijan is so ambiguous that "the Voice of Talyshstan" from Stepanakert may well outcry the "let's defend our homeland" calls from Baku, Director General of the European Center for Geopolitical Analysis Mateusz Piskorski said in an interview with ArmInfo.

The Russian Government has approved the agreement on Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union.

Azerbaijani armed forces breached the ceasefire on the border with Armenia 56 times on 5-6 August, the Armenian Defense Ministry press-service told ArmInfo.  Azerbaijani forces fired over 7175 shots from weapons of various calibers in the period under review. The Armenian party responded 28 times firing 5025 shots.

The Azerbaijani army is today able to destroy any facility in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said during the meeting with the servicemen of one of the frontline military units in the country's Aghdam region on Aug 6.

 Armenia's Emergency Situations Minister (ESM) Armen Yeritsyan addressed the defense minister at the Government's Thursday meeting, suggesting deployment of civil defense squadrons of the ESM on the frontline. 

25 killed Azeri soldiers are not a coincidence but a proof of panic in Azerbaijan, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan told journalists on Thursday.

The growing tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone have proved that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict cannot be settled peacefully as Azerbaijan is against this, President of the Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan Grigory Ayvazyan told journalists on Thursday.

 Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have met with the Armenian captive and 5 members of a family held in Azerbaijan, media contact person for the ICRC Delegation to Azerbaijan Ilaha Huseynova told APA. 

 In past four years the world's longest ropeway in Tatev has carried 250,000 people.  The 250,000th passengers, Mary Hovhannisyan was carried on Wednesday. The managers of the ropeway had a surprise for the lucky - she will be able to use the ropeway free of charge during one year.

 The world community and the OSCE Minsk Group, in particular, must give an appropriate response to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's aggressiveness, Spokesman of Prosperous Armenia Party Tigran Urikhanyan told ArmInfo on Thursday, when asked to comment on Aliyev's last statement that Azsrbaijan will take back all of historical lands, including Yerevan and Syunik, and will destroy all military facilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.

 Serzh Sargsyan must stand up for Levon Hayrapetyan in Sochi, member of the Armenian National Movement Party Hovhannes Igityan told journalists on Thursday.
Igityan is sure that as President, Sargsyan must use his forthcoming meeting with the Azeri and Russian presidents in Sochi as an opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin to set Hayrapetyan free. 

 Turkey must not be allowed to apply its anti-Armenian policy in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkologist Artak Shakaryan told journalists on Thursday.

31-year-old Karen Petrosyan from the Armenian village of Chinari was taken prisoner by Azeris on Thursday.

 No representative of the Russian Embassy in Armenia came out off the building to meet with the participants in the action in support of Levon Hayrapetyan, an Armenian businessman arrested in Russia. 

Soldier Victor Abramov (1995) was wounded in an intensive fire by the Azerbaijani armed forces on the Line of Contact with Nagorno Karabakh on 7 August, NKR Defense Army said.

 Growing violence in the Karabakh conflict zone will become a topic for Sargsyan-Aliyev talks in Sochi, Sergey Markedonov, Department of International Relations at the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Moscow, told ArmInfo.