President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has signed a decision on granting state awards.

Monument expert Samvel Karapetyan has been posthumously awarded the Movses Khorenatsi Medal; the Movses Khorenatsi Medal has also been awarded to children’s writer Liparit Sargsyan; journalist, translator Madlena Garagashyan; literary critic, translator Albert Musheghyan; composer Vache Sharafyan; painter Haghtanak Shahumyan and soloist of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet of Lithuania Hasmik Grigoryan, and the Medal for Merit for Work has been granted to Professor of Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Martin Yeritsyan on the occasion of Independence Day and for their contributions to the development of culture.