Armenia’s President Serzh Sarkisian met at the weekend with Israeli historian and genocide expert Yair Auron, who was accompanied by writer and publicist Zory Balayan.

Armenia warned Azerbaijan of “severe consequences” on Monday after two Armenian soldiers were killed in Nagorno-Karabakh in what appears to be a renewed upsurge in fighting in the conflict zone.

On February 27, 1988, Armenians living in the city of Sumgait were subject to a brutal pogrom by rampaging mobs. These massacres spilled into the towns of Baku and Kirovobad, as well.

Armenian officials on Friday expressed their anger and deemed it inappropriate that Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attended an event organized by Azerbaijan regarding what Baku calls the “Khojaly genocide.”

The Armenian authorities on Friday immediately responded to calls by the Assyrian community to host Assyrian refugees who have been displaced from their native lands in Syria at the hands of the Islamic State.

A hearing for the case of Azerbaijani nationals Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev was held at the Artsakh Court of Appeals in Stepanakert on Thursday.

At the Innovate Armenia event hosted by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies on Feb. 21, a team of software engineers from Armenia, headed by Varham Martirosian, presented a mobile phone application that wowed the audience.

Several Armenian IT companies will showcase their products at CeBIT 2015, the largest technology exhibition in Europe set for March 16 to 20 in Hanover, Germany, the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) of Armenia reports.

The UWC Dilijan College is the first building in Armenia to receive certification from the Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has dismissed reports that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs have called for the return of two Azeri commandos jailed in Artsakh.

“Despite Armenia’s decision in September 2013 not to sign the Association Agreement and DCFTA with the EU but rather to join the Eurasian Economic Union, the EU remains committed to further engagement with Armenia, and to strengthening bilateral cooperation within the Eastern Partnership, in all areas compatible with Armenia’s more recent policy choices,” the Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia Traian Hristea said Wednesday at a conference titled, “EU-Armenia Cooperation: Perspective in the Actual Political Environment.”

“Digging into the Future – Armenia” will premiere on select PBS stations in April as part of the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenian authorities have presented a photocopy of an official document sent from Russia acknowledging the receipt of Yerevan’s formal request for the transfer to Armenian custody of a Russian soldier accused of killing seven members of a single family in Armenia last month.

Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan referred to Azerbaijani claims about the events in Khojaly during the Artsakh War as “propaganda.”