STEPANAKERT.- President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan signed a decree to award posthumously NKR Defense Army soldier killed by the Azerbaijani sniper.

Private Vaghinak Baghdasaryan was awarded for bravery shown during the defense of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic state border.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, Vaghinak Baghdasaryan (born in 1993) was fatally wounded by an adversary bullet on the frontline on Tuesday.

A criminal case was instigated on Article 104, part 2, 13 - murder out of motives of national, race or religious hate or fanatism and an investigation is underway.