The quantity of men who seek to become contract sergeants in RA AF increases. Colonel G.Hakobyan, head of Division in Operational Training Department told this to “Hay Zinvor” correspondent. According to him, during this training stage the received applications were 50% more than in the previous training stage.
Contract sergeant candidates pass basic training in a regiment’s base. There they get specialization as detachment and platoon commanders. After education they pass exams on physical, combatant training, tactics, service regulations etc., and join regiments which conduct combat duty.

On Armenia-Azerbaijan border, at regiment’s combat duty zone under the command of Lieutenant Colonel R.Beglaryan recently a new combat base station was founded.
This step was essential since cattle theft from the Azeri side had become frequent. After base station’s opening, which has a strategic, dominant position over enemy’s positions, thefts were stopped.

Recently in the RA Defense Ministry a training assembly of signalers-“Harris” radio-station specialists was conducted by the RA AF GS Communication and Management Automatic Systems Department’s specialists.
During trainings the participants set up radio communication between specified centres in ultrashort and short radiowaves spheres, ensured secure communication, created a radioweb consisted of a few subscribers.

As RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan mentioned, liberation of Shoushi (1992.05.09) is such a military operation which “made our independence a reality” and “opened a new firmament of success of Artsakh armed forces”. In historical victory of Shoushi the Armenian intelligence agents have their inestimable role.
After the Soviet troops withdrawal from Artsakh the NKR leadership created the first regular sub-unit of intelligence agents in the self-defense forces – military intelligence company headed by Vitaliy Haroutyunyan. After some time a radio intelligence group was formed.

Commander of a regiment, which stands guard over the section of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Colonel A.Mouradyan in his talk with “Hay Zinvor” correspondent told that from the enemy’s positions side every day dozens of shot sounds from sniper rifles are heard.

On November 22nd, the birthday of fighter-volunteer Leonid Azgaldyan, who perished on June 21st, 1992 for liberation of Nagorno Karabakh from the Azeri invaders and was аwarded a posthumous decoration of 1st degree “Battle Cross”, the classroom of Basic military training of the school No. 80 after V.Vagharshyan was named after the hero. In this connection a solemn ceremony was organized, and L.Azgaldyan’s comrades-in-arms told schoolchildren their memories about Leonid.

On the opinion of Arabist Nelli Mouradyan, power change in Syria would not result in country’s democratization. Quite the contrary, most probably the Islamists will come to power and chaos would begin in the country.
Today the law guarantees national minorities rights and there is a religious tolerance atmosphere in the country, but in case the Islamists come the attitude towards national and religious minorities would sharply deteriorate. Already now in some places the Islamists utter threats towards Armenians saying: “You came here naked and today you keep us as labourers”.