…Dear compatriots! Congratulations on the 24th anniversary of the formation of the Armenian Army!

Voronezh journalist Valentin Kotyukh approached us with the request – to provide data about the pilot, the commander of the fighter, Junior Lieutenant Artyusha Ohanjanyan who died heroically near Voronezh on July 8, 1942, directing his burning plane in a concentration of enemy tanks.

Ministry of Defence and the Writers’ Union have a cooperation program, according to which they must organize activities aimed at the moral, military, patriotic, cultural, ideological education of soldiers.

The proximity of literature and army is dictated by life and has its reasons. What is literature? – The movement of the soul. What is the army? – The force that protects the homeland from the enemy. Does strength need the presence of the soul? – Sure.

I think that the writer – the defender of man, and the soldier – the defender of the motherland and the world, both in the days of peace and in times of war must act together.

This year, on the holiday of the Holy Christmas, His Holiness the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin B, after the holy liturgy conducted the ceremony of Blessing of water. Godfather of the Water blessing Cross of this year became Colonel of the NKR Defense Army Jalal Harutyunyan.

The interview of special correspondent of the newspaper “Armenian Soldier” Gayaneh Pogosyan with military commissioner of Armenia, Colonel Henrik Muradian