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.

On March 5th, the birthday of RA and NKR National Hero Vazgen Sargsyan the schoolchildren of Yerevan’s No.184 school visited Vazgen Sargsyan’s house-museum in Ararat and the regiment after Vazgen Sargsyan. The schoolchildren took pictures with V.Sargsyan’s mother Greta Sargsyan.

On March 3rd a conference was held in the Yerevan State Medical University dedicated to the problems of the military medicine. National Assembly Chairman Samvel Nikoyan, Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan, high-ranking officers, doctors participated in the conference. During the conference special issues such as Armed Forces personal staff’s health protection, medical staff’s special preparation, military medicine perfection as a science were discussed.

On March 2nd Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan met with Yerevan State Economic University students and Professors-Lecturers staff in the framework of functions dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the National Army. The Minister introduced to the audience the peculiarities of RA AF formation, afterwards he answered the numerous questions of the students.

In the last 5 years Armenian Armed Forces obtained more armaments than in previous 15 years. This was announced by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan in Ijevan city during the discussion of the Armenian Republican Party’s election program with intelligentsia representatives.
“In the last years we increased our fighting efficiency and with this forced the enemy to peace”, – told Tigran Sargsyan.

In Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic a newly built area and a street will be named after Artsakh Liberation War participant Major General Anatoliy Zinevich who has a big contribution in building of the national army of Armenia and NKR. On the new street the bust of the General will be situated.