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THE LAST VETERAN FROM OUYTS – THE 301ST

94-year-old grandfather Khachatur is from the village Ouyts of Syunik region. From their village 301 men participated in the Great Patriotic War, 157 didn’t return.
– On January 3, 1943 the offensive began. We liberated Rostov, Odessa, Kaliningrad, reached the borders of Romania. I was in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Vienna, – tells grandfather Khachatur.

ARMENIANS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARMY

Russian media reported that the May 9 parade of the 70th anniversary of Victory in Vladivostok took Admiral Sergey Avagyants.
Sergey Hovsep Avagyants was born on April 6, 1957 in Yerevan, in the family of an officer of Naval Forces of the USSR. He graduated from the Black Sea Higher Naval School after P.Nakhimov, then studied at the Naval Academy after Admiral N.Kuznetsov and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.

THE CORE OF THE YEMENI CRISIS IS THE SAUDI OIL

Emerged a month ago and aggravated the Yemeni crisis could become a worldwide problem, because it is increasing its impact on the major geopolitical processes and changing the format of involvement of the superpowers. It is directly linked to the new processes of redistribution of the international oil market and, in this context, the old allies gradually find themselves on opposite sides of dividing lines.

COURAGE

On May 25, 2014, in the south direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact on the shot of the enemy Colonel Garik Balayan was killed. On the same day soldier Armen Saghyan, ignoring the heavy fire, from the open field took back the body of his commander. The soldier is represented fot the medal “For courage”, which will be presented to him on May 9.

"IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST NAZISM, WE WERE TOGETHER": INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

On April 28, 2015, in Moscow, in the Gallery of the RF Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, opened an international exhibition on the theme “In the struggle against Nazism, we were together,” which will last until the end of October.
Organizers of the exposition are: RF Council of Federation, State Duma, ministries of foreign affairs, defense and culture, CIS Executive Committee, International Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS member states, Russian military and historical society, Russian Federation Commanders Club. The opening ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

IN THE SCHOOL-SHIRT POCKET - AT THE HEART

Russians are grateful people. Recently, people from Anapa brought a handful of soil from the grave of my father. I felt better. As if my father returned home and has his grave in his homeland. These people told that in that Russian village all weddings begin at the memorial plate of my father, the bride and groom water trees, put flowers on the grave. My sons have repeatedly been in Anapa and participated in the events.

WORD ABOUT THE FORGOTTEN HEROES

These days the book of writer and journalist Sergey Vardanyan “Bloody seed” in Russian was released. The book talks about the participation of the Armenians of Abkhazia and Krasnodar in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Particular attention is paid to the exploits of 13 Armenians – Heroes of the Soviet Union.