On October 7, 2011 in the RA Ministry of Defense the final stage of the all-army annual Contest of social-state training group leaders’ was conducted. With the help of tests knowledge of militarymen in the sphere of principles, methods and ways of teaching, skills of implementation, efficiency of organized studies were checked.

On October 3-7 in the framework of the NATO program “Partnership for Peace” in the Swiss city of Tun a Conference on Cartography, Measurement and Geodesy was organized. 16 countries took part in the Conference, among the CIS countries – only Armenia and Moldova. The aim of the Conference was the profound cooperation of civil and military institutions of this sphere.

Long ago it was proved that understanding of war reasons by a serviceman considerably affects his personality and moral-psychological merits. One of the evidence is the Artsakh liberation war against the Azeri invaders.
“The military-political leadership of Azerbaijan was not able to clearly present to its nation the aims of the dictated to NKR and Armenia war, and to lift the bellicose spirit”, – says psychologist, PhD in Psychology, associate professor, Colonel Vazgen Markaryan.

These days the Basic Military Training Class of the School No.77 after Rouben Miroyan in Yerevan was named after the warriors-volunteers detachment “Aramo”, participants of Artsakh liberation war.
In this connection a solemn function was organized in participation with “Aramo” Detachment’s legendary commander Colonel Aram Torgomyan (Aramo), his comreades-in-arms, servicemen, NGO representatives, pupils with their parents and teachers.

For RA Justice Colonel Vazgen Arakelyan the 21st of September, Independence Day, was а double festival. In Anapa (Russian Federation) he participated in a solemn ceremony dedicated to the heroes-liberators of that city. Among them was his grandfather, Hero of the Soviet Union Souren Arakelyan, who 68 years ago, on September 21, 1943 covered with his chest enemy’s machinegun’s tube at Kurbatskaya settlement.

On September 4-24, 15 signalers from RA Armed Forces took part in annual Games of Communication and Information Technologies “Cooperative Effort-2011”, organized by the USA European command in American military base Gravenver in South-East Germany.
In 2002-2003 Armenia participated in these games as an observer, and from 2004 – as a full participant. “Participated 1500 militarymen from 40 countries of the world.

In connection with the 20th anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the NKR Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs organized a 2-day pilgrimage to the top of Big Kirse Mountain (2742m). The representatives of NGOs from NKR, Armenia, Georgia, as well as women-veterans of the Artsakh liberation war and soldiers of NKR Army of Defense who were acknowledged the best in service took part in the pilgrimage.