On 16 December President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan signed a decree according to which director of the Palace of Culture of the NKR Martouni region's Ghouze Chartar village Rashid Aghamalyan was conferred the Honorary Title of the NKR People's Artist for substantial contribution to the development of culture. On the same day taking into consideration the conclusions of the NKR Council of Justice and NKR Supreme Court dated on 13 December 2011 President Bako Sahakyan signed a decree on terminating the terms in office of judge of the NKR Supreme Court Zoya Ohanyan. On 16 December taking into consideration decisions of the NKR Council of Justice dated on 13 December 2011 President Sahakyan signed decrees on approving the list of candidates for judges and list of official promotion of judges. In was announced to "NT" by the Central Information Department of the office of the Artsakh repablic president.

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