It was on January 28. In the evening I wanted to have a rest but something was bugging me. I stood up and told the guys that I was going to the position. It is only later they would jokingly say, “You exactly have connections on the other side. Then why did you just go to that position?” Joking aside, but when you are connected with the land, with a vengeance feel danger.

All-Armenian declaration angered Turkey. Press Secretary of the President of Turkey said that the declaration violates all international norms, that it is an obvious manifestation of hostility to Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the declaration is a flagrant violation of diplomatic etiquette and indecent behavior for the president of our country. Such promiscuity of Turkish authorities is already sufficient to ascertain the feasibility of this Declaration and to note that the document has already served its purpose.

Tandem Russia-Iran is trying to offer a compromise to save the format of regional security, which is the driving force of the idea of the Russian-Iranian military cooperation.
According to various estimates, the current level of Russian-Iranian military cooperation is 3-5bln dollars, but these figures can change for the better after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s recent visit to Iran.

The enemy penetrates into our territory, some of them die, and I’m confident that our people allow them to carry away their dead. This humanity is surprising me. I’ve never called to attack first. I say – if they attack us, we must take the war to the enemy’s territory. I do not understand, international standards are only for us, or what?

Recently we have a lot of pride in our army, that it is an established structure. However, it seems to me that we very much look forward to the army. Developing societies ought to think about the harmony of all spheres. It’s not possible to consider the army as established structure if one or another branch of the society is poorly developed. Every day I become an eyewitness to the glorification of the criminal world, thieves’ morals in the series, plays, books. How it happened that our people suddenly put all these at the very top of propaganda? My childhood was spent in the postwar years, when the conditions were much more difficult, but one of thousands chose this path. And no one boasted such people. On the contrary, they said – how did it happen that he turned away from the true path? Who is the hero of our time? Time creates a hero! If someone puts morals at the heart of his activities, he becomes a hero of our time, because today there is a demand for morality.

The shortcomings characteristic of our society, as well as shortcomings in the army come from our wrong cultural policy. We must realize that culture is not fun, but a powerful means of education, the foundation of morality and has a single purpose – to educate society. Each of our today’s mistakes tomorrow will lead to sad consequences, and today we are witnessing this.

Recently captain Voskanyan was awarded the medal “Vazgen Sargsyan”. Acting under his command tank company during final exams of 2014, they registered high rates of fire training and driving.
His colleagues said about him that “his strength and weakness is the tank.”
“And why the tank?” – I asked Mihran. He sincerely replied, “Because tank emphasizes my importance”.