The 6th issue of the “Vardzk” which was published for the months of April, May and June 2012 (A4 format, 64 pages), contains an article dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the printing of the first Armenian book and entitled Printing-Houses throughout the Armenian Homeland. With this issue of the “Vardzk,” RAA has started publishing the manuscript memoirs (Pages from My Diary) of meritorious teacher Sargis Israelian from Shushi City, Republic of Artsakh. Their continuation can be found in the next issue of the periodical. Vardzk No. 6 ends with a critical review of a recent publication on the medieval Armenian capital of Ani. Taking into account the contents of the articles, we have found it expedient to publish this issue in black and white. Vardzk No. 6 was prepared and published with the financial assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia.

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The 5th issue of the “Vardzk” periodical, published for the months of January, February and March 2012 (A4 format, 64 pages, in coloured print), contains articles on certain subjects of history, archaeology and architecture which have not been ever touched upon in the scientific circles or have been treated only very superficially: What is Concealed in the Turkish Information Boards of the Historical Monuments in Western Armenia?; The “Accidental” Fires in the Ottoman Empire; The Pantheon of Mahlam; The Hermitage of St. Gregory of Narek, Sourb Astvatzamor Monastery of Zarehavan (Derik); The Newly-Unclosed City Site of Karkar in Artsakh; The Distortion of Monuments in Our Days. The articles are illustrated with maps, photographs and measurements. Vardzk No. 5 was prepared and published with the financial assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia.

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VARDZK No. 4 includes articles based on research carried out by some of RAA members and treating the following issues: falsification of information on the sign-boards of monuments in Western Armenia; the positive and negative sides of monument restoration in the same part of Historical Armenia; newly-discovered specimens of Armenian cryptography; Tzarakar, one of the cut-in-rock monasteries of medieval Armenian architecture, the location of which was unknown until very recently; Charektar Monastic Complex in Artsakh, where excavations and studies have been implemented, and the demography of Kesab District, a ''suburb'' of Cilicia, for a period of a century.

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The Armenian Highland, which has been inhabited by Armenians since time immemorial, and which used to be home to the kingdoms of Metz Hayk (Armenia Major) and Pokr Hayk (Armenia Minor), abounds in a wide variety of centuries-old historical monuments created by its natives.
In recent 8 to 9 decades (since 1920), the aforementioned states neighbouring Armenia have shown different approaches to the issue of the preservation of Armenian historical monuments-with the exception of Iran, the other three of them have not ever taken any steps towards the preservation of Armenian historical monuments; moreover, they have been subjected to premeditated demolition in these countries.

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In the course of hteir centuries-old history, the Armenians have built and created a wide variety of cultural monuments most of which are situated in the territory of Armenia, the historical cradle of the Armenian nation. In their frenzy of annihilating everyhting Armenian, the Turkish authorities have already totally wiped out thousands of centuries-old Armenian historical monuments that are justly considered as forming an inseparable part of human civilization. The exent of the premeditated atrocities perpetrated against Armenian monuments, and the fact that they are always carefully planned by the Turkish Government prove that they are carrying on the genocide of the Armenian nation, this time targeting their cultural haritage.

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...the journal is symbolically named Vardzk, namely Duty of Soul, in token of the moral obligation of the present and coming generations of Armenians to sacredly preserve the heritage bequeathed by their ancestors with full understanding of their mission to gradually make it known to the public at large.
The first edition of the Vardzk semi-annual journal is entirely dedicated to Dr. Armen Hakhnazarian's ever living memory in commemoration of the first anniversary of his death.

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