In connection with the 20th anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the NKR Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs organized a 2-day pilgrimage to the top of Big Kirse Mountain (2742m). The representatives of NGOs from NKR, Armenia, Georgia, as well as women-veterans of the Artsakh liberation war and soldiers of NKR Army of Defense who were acknowledged the best in service took part in the pilgrimage.

Recently 16 PhD fellows from Armenia did a 5-day volunteer military service in one of the regiments of the NKR Army of Defense. The initiative belongs to Khachik Grigoryan, lecturer of Iranian Studies Department, Yerevan State University, head of scientific net ArmAcad (Armenian Association of Academic Cooperation & Support, NGO).