The ancient period of the history of the Armenian nation is badly studied. In the Soviet years the tendency of the equality of the nations didn’t allow to confess that next to the nations having a history of centuries Armenia has a history of millenniums. The tree nations of Transcaucasia – the Armenians, the Georgians and the Azeri were considered the heirs of Urartu – the oldest slaveholding country of the territory of the Soviet Union and it was a complete falsification and nonsense. It was just then when the theory of Armenians as newcomers was created. Developing this theory, the Turkish came to a new nonsense: according to them the newly arrived Armenians have annihilated the Turks of Urartu and have settled in their country.

Patriotism means doing work and I know no other way of loving your fatherland. Patriotism is a responsibility for the fate of the fatherland. I often think that the soldiers are standing on the borders of fatherland every moment, one replaces the other but they are always in the rank, they cannot be off their guard, they can’t display unconscientiousness even for a moment and leave the border defenseless. We also must be vigilant every moment, be in the rank and do something for our fatherland for the soldier keeping our border and for each other to the extent of our abilities.

The word Azerbaijan and Azeri have only a history of 90 years, they came out only after 1918. The word Azerbaijan in fact is the deformed variant of Atrpatakan. The Azeri are the followers of Caucasian Tatars. Those nomadic tribes settled in the second half of the 19th century on demand of the czarist government. Constantly moving from one place to another the Caucasian Tatars caused a lot of trouble and the Russian government threatened to expel them from the borders of the empire if they didn’t settle down.

On March 7 the RA Government on its session approved the RA Military Education Doctrine, the road map of the stages of the officer staff preparation and the program of events for the realization of the Military Education Doctrine. The RA Military Education Doctrine has been designed by the working group comprised of the representatives of the concerned departments of the Armed Forces General Staff and the RA Ministry of Defense, the RA National Academy of Sciences, RA Ministry of Science and Education, Yerevan State University, Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsy, as well as Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan.

On March 5 Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan accompanied by Seyran Ohanyan, Minister of Defense, met the servicemen of one of the military units in Yerevan, presenting the educational program implemented in the Armed Forces. It is aimed at development of professional skills and knowledge of demobilized soldiers in certain educational subjects and their preparation for the admission to the RA higher educational institutions, preliminary and middle professional educational institutions.

Choosing these words of Commander Vazgen Sargsyan as a slogan, the 3-rd anniversary of this statesman and military personality was celebrated in the Military Institute bearing his name due to the joint efforts of the students of State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan and the students of the Military Institute. Parents of the National Hero were present at this event. Through warlike and patriotic songs and performances, staged episodes the life of Vazgen Sargsyan was once more presented, his contribution to the victory of the fight for freedom in Artsakh and to the formation of national army was recalled and marked with importance.

On March 7, the Ministry of Defense gathered under its roof women soldiers, freedom-fighters, mothers of soldiers of the National army, wives, mothers and daughters of the freedom-fighters killed in the Artsakh war, women-members of non-governmental organizations, teachers and journalists on the occasion of celebration of Women’s Day. Those gathered firstly received congratulations in the name of women-soldiers.