An essential component of the national security system is also environmental security, the protection of vital human interests, first and foremost the right to live in a clean, healthy, environmentally friendly environment.

The new academic year has started. The educational process has also started in military schools. The topic of our conversation with Lt Col Artsrun Hovhannisyan, Head of the Ministry of Defense’s Education Department of the General Department of Personnel and Military-Educational Policy, is the achievements in the military-educational sphere, the key issues and goals.

Pioneer of the RA Armed Forces, renowned military and public figure, Colonel-General Gurgen Dalibaltayan passed away on September 1, 2015.
Gurgen Dalibaltayan was born on June 5, 1926, in Georgia, the Great Aragyan village of the Ninotsminda region.
In 1947, graduated from the Infantry School in Tbilisi. In 1958-61, studied at Frounzeh Military Academy. He served in the USSR Armed Forces from 1947 to 1991. General Dalibaltayan also occupied multiple commanding positions in Echmiadzin, Yerevan, Perekeshkul, Prishib, Kirovabad, Abakan and Rostov-on-Don.

On August 27, the solemn closing ceremony of the Gathering of military-sports organizations “Union 2015: Heirs of the Victory – Armenia” was held. The event was attended by the Minister of Defense of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan, who personally presented the awards to the winners.

This year there were 92 applicants to the faculty, 30 were admitted, of which 70% received 36 or more points, two got 39,25. That’s pretty good result and talks about that the best high school graduates come to the Military Medical Faculty. And it also suggests that for them the main thing is not the free education but the desire to become a military doctor.

Recently, as a result of the enemy’s sabotage invasion in the direction of one of the northeastern military units of the NKR Deacon Hovhannes Galstyan, which carries a spiritual service in the military unit and the driver, private Arthur Balayan were injured.

On August 17, the international youth military-sports competition-gathering, “Union-2015: the descendants of Victory” was launched, which was attended by 500 participants from different countries of the CIS. Gathering is carried out under the patronage of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia with the assistance of the public movement “Valor of fatherland” and the Federation of Military wrestling “Rus”.