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STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), Bako Sahakyan, signed a decree on Monday. 

Accordingly, NKR Defense Army division serviceman Garik Vardanyan has been posthumously awarded with the Medal for Service in Battle, and in recognition of his bravery during the defense of the Artsakh state border, Central Information Department of the Office of the NKR President informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As reported earlier Vardanyan (born in 1996), who was severely wounded by the adversary, died on Sunday at 11:35pm, at the Ministry of Defense of Armenia Central Clinical Military Hospital, in capital city Yerevan.

Vardanyan was severely wounded on December 30, 2016, as a result of the Azerbaijani armed forces’ ceasefire violation in a northeasterly direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact. Subsequently, he was helicoptered from NKR capital city Stepanakert Military Hospital to Yerevan.

The serviceman was to be discharged from the army on Tuesday.

Garik Vardanyan was from Aygestan village of Armenia’s Ararat Province.

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