Most of the festivities were this year held outside Yerevan, in the city of Gyumri. The main event saw 13 citizens being awarded the title "Hero of our times".
Ahmad Alili looks at the current state of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, ahead of a scheduled meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan later this month, and argues that public opinion now requires answers and clarifications
Those who wonder why there are constant problems around South Ossetia need to look at the conditions the Russians created after their recognition of the territory's independence in 2008.
Reports in the Armenian media speculate that there may be further resignations in the law and order and security sectors as heads of services are dismissed or reshuffled.
Artur Vanetsyan has been a prominent face of the new government, and was instrumental in bringing forward cases against former officials accused of corruption and abuse of power. Clearly however his relations with prime minister Nikol Pashinyan had not been easy.
The situation around the South Ossetia conflict zone has been deteriorating for several weeks, after Russia and its South Ossetian allies, re-started a process of borderisation which effectively separates communities and villages.
During the meeting, both parties stressed that the increase of dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Turkey is not only important for the sides, "but it is also significant for establishing peace and welfare in a wider geography."
A rescue team from Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry were dispatched to Mount Aragats after a 911 call from another Pole who was accompanying the deceased
Earlier, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe emphasised the importance of complying with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. (ECHR). The court has made a number of decisions regarding Azerbaijan in recent years.