Recently in the administrative complex of the RA Ministry of Defense a summary of the results of the Public Council under the Minister of Defense was held.
Chairman of the Board, adviser to the Defense Minister Gegham Harutyunyan, in his report, presenting the work done over the last 3 years, mentioned that the Council has constantly acted within the army-society relations and has always sought to contribute to the development of effective cooperation and collaboration between the army and society, allowing full provision of social and legal guarantees of servicemen, organized the visit of the intelligentsia, cultural groups in the military units.

In 2013 in the South Caucasus was a situational change, which was due to renewed geopolitical conflict between the West and Russia. Ukraine became the first victim of this rivalry. Then the Eastern Partnership program collapsed, the US-Russian cooperation in our region stopped, and finally – Syria.
From all of this – the first lesson for the Armenian side is the fact that the South Caucasus as a geopolitical unit, continues to have the impact of the processes taking place in the neighboring regions.

This project is completely different from other series: here is a different format, a different approach. We can say, mostly it is a multi-part feature film. This is the first series in Armenia on military-patriotic themes. Gisaneh Poghosyan has written a soundtrack specially for the movie. The film stars two generations of artists: Rudolf Ghevondyan, Sargis Grigoryan, Armen Soghoyan, Ashot Ter-Matevosyan, Rosie Avetisova etc.

25 September – this is the day that turned me into a different reality, this is the day when I really felt that I am a military… – tells chief of northeastern artillery military unit, Lieutenant Colonel Armen Sargsyan. – On this day, the enemy used grenade launchers of 60 and 82mm caliber. We received orders to return fire to suppress the firing points. That was my first combat action. In 2-3 hours we shot 60 mines. If from the enemy’s 10 shots 2 were aimed, in our case it was 7 of 10.

Berdavan village is just a few hundred meters away from the enemy. We are accompanied by the deputy commander of the military unit, Lieutenant Colonel Manuk Badalyan who says that vineyard is just around the military unit directly under the gun of the enemy, so it is not safe to work in the garden, to collect harvest. Spouses Aprikyans treated us with grapes, and it seemed to me that this grape has a very different flavor.

In the RA MoD Military Institute after Vazgen Sargsyan Institute-school cooperation stands on a solid foundation. In order to promote military-patriotic education of the younger generation, the Military Institute often organizes classes, competitions, Olympiads, provided by the subject “Basic military training”, as well as excursions, during which pupils get acquainted with the life of the students, with stimulators and training weapons.

After the end of the relevant courses of the Military Aviation Institute after Marshal Armenak Khanperyants, I and my classmate Dzyunik Aveyan enlisted in the air-defense forces.
The most important one was the first day, and it began wonderfully, the command staff received us warmly. At that moment, I was the happiest person in the world. Our arrival at the military unit coincided with the trainings, and, as they say, without foreplay we entered the military life. We were all equal, but representatives of the “weaker sex” were always under scrutiny of the officers. With their guidance and advice commander of the military unit, Colonel M.Sahakyan, his deputy, Lt. Colonel G.Nazaretyan, Colonels G.Zeynalyan, Kh.Torosyan helped us a lot.