STEPANAKERT. - President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan on Monday signed a decree according to which serviceman of the NKR Defense Army's N division Gor Gareginyan was posthumously awarded with the "For Service in Battle" medal for bravery shown during the defense of the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic state border, the press-service of the NKR President’s Office reports.

Gor Gareginyan (born in 1997) was killed at 11p.m. on Monday in the northeastern direction of the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Karabakh armed forces.