The farewell visit of Mathew Bryza to the region in the position of an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair was, as usual, a bit scandalous and unequal; in a word, nothing new except for a new "imperative" used by the Department of State, claiming immediate handover of the five regions of Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan, and after a while also that of the remaining two. It is simply interesting who from the State Department will this time deny what Bryza said.

Basic political events of the dying week in Armenia were the work of the Council of Elders in Yerevan, sluggish protests of the opposition, break-up of the fact-gathering group of March 1 events, review of the tax bill in the RA Parliament, and suspension of funding provided to Armenia by the program "Millennium Challenges".