Executive members of patriotic NGO “Armenian Eagles” headed by their chairman Khachik Asiryan visited Defense Ministry of Armenia on February 5th. The aim of the visit was to generalize 4-year activities of the organization. During that period the NGO visited more than 500 communities, organized 550 functions, set up 300 branches, more than 32000 persons voluntarily joined the organization.

At present a few Armenians study in the Moscow military University. I am 2nd year student in the faculty of information procurement. In selecting of this profession my father played a big role, he serves in the Armenian army since 1993.
I am confident that our armed forces need highly qualified military journalists. Their main task is to present the real picture of the army, to facilitate to the staff’s ideological education.
It is rightly said: “Who is informed, he wins the war”.

Artsakh war has its “regiment’s sons” who forgetting about childhood breathed powder. The most important lesson of life they got during the war – that is the right war for justice.
Yermak (Andranik Mnatsakanyan) is one of those boys, he was the son of the Shoushi special battalion. He still misses Peto (Petros Ghevondyan), Hrach Gasparyan. He is already 30 but anyway remembers his childhood. He served in the Armenian army, and all the commanders were surprised how he knew to tackle all weapons. After service 8 years he lived and worked in Fizuli, where Shoushi’s antitank group’s commander Hrach Gasparyan perished.

Armenian army’s 22nd anniversary was marked also in the kindergarten no. 41 after Gourgen Margaryan of administrative region Ajapnyak. The children with inspiration met the veterans of Karabakh war – K.Ghumashyan, Yu. Michaelyan, A.Mkrtchyan, D.Grigoryan, etc. The aim of such meetings is to give lessons of patriotism to the children.
In the end of the function the kindergarten director and teachers were presented a certificate of NGO “Karabakh war veterans” by organization’s chairman Yu.Michaelyan.

Periodically cyber-war between Armenians and Azeris activates. Information technologist Samvel Martirosyan says that the users of sites and social net should be attentive to their pages, passwords, especially state servants and militarymen, know elementary rules of cyber-security culture.

On February 4, ARM Minister of Defenсe received CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha and CSTO Chief of Joint Staff Alexander Studenikin.
During the meeting which was also attended by Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov and First Deputy Defenсe Minister David Tonoyan issues related to current and prospective development of the CSTO military element were discussed.

From January 13 to February, the peacekeeping unit of the Armenian Armed Forces consisting of 75 servicemen participated in the regular multinational pre-deployment exercises at the training center of the US Armed Forces in Germany in the scope of the KFOR mission.