For 900 years, on the Thursday before Easter, the Armenian Apostolic Church after morning services conducts Penance and the Holy Liturgy, followed by a ceremony of “Footwashing”, which is carried out in the afternoon.

We are located in the north-eastern section of the border. Sergeant of the reference point, Senior Lieutenant Radik Ayvazyan accompanies us. I notice that the reference points, the trenches have a strong engineering structures. Machine-gunner Narek Amiryan very confidently said that they are in full combat readiness.

For me the expressions “RA Armed Forces”, “Armenian Army”, “Armenian soldiers”, “Fatherland defender” have acquired a definite meaning and content, when my brother, Vladimir Muradyan was called to the army.

From 17 to March 20, a few professors of Yerevan State University, representatives of student organizations became participants of several initiatives in Artsakh. It should be noted that this year’s visit to Artsakh was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the post-graduate of the Journalism Department of the Faculty of Philology of YSU, liberator-soldier Norayr Marutyan and the 25th anniversary of Armenia’s independence.

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Public Council under the RA Minister of Defense, headed by its chairman, advisor to Defence Minister Gegham Harutyunyan, in the framework of the project “Pages of History and Culture” on March 26-27 undertook a trip of a large group of scientists, cultural figures to the military units of Artsakh.

Candidate of Philology Sciences, Armenologist Haykazun Alvrtsyan founded and is the director of the Research Center for Studies of Western Armenians’ problems.