The shortcomings characteristic of our society, as well as shortcomings in the army come from our wrong cultural policy. We must realize that culture is not fun, but a powerful means of education, the foundation of morality and has a single purpose – to educate society. Each of our today’s mistakes tomorrow will lead to sad consequences, and today we are witnessing this.

Recently captain Voskanyan was awarded the medal “Vazgen Sargsyan”. Acting under his command tank company during final exams of 2014, they registered high rates of fire training and driving.
His colleagues said about him that “his strength and weakness is the tank.”
“And why the tank?” – I asked Mihran. He sincerely replied, “Because tank emphasizes my importance”.

Recently commander of the air defense of Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Major General Altay Mehdiyev has been dismissed from the service. He is one of the most famous high-ranking military of Azerbaijan, participant of the Karabakh war. Perhaps the main reason for the dismissal of General was his national identity.

On January 27 Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan summed up the 2014 army year. Besides journalists, military attaches of foreign diplomatic missions, high-ranking militarymen, guests were present on the press-conference.
As expected, the Minister highlighted the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, noting that the systematic violation of the ceasefire, the organization of sabotage, Armenophobia grafting his own people and vile falsification of obvious facts from the Azerbaijani side is a destabilizing factor in the safety of the South Caucasus and in the region.

In comparison with 2013, the number of reported cases of the enemy increased by 16, reaching from 6 to 22. I’ll note that in the central office of the Military Police five working groups have formed that regularly visit military units to check on-site the service of military police and the effectiveness of cooperation with commanders of military units.

Islamic extremism, as both religious and political force, in the beginning was aimed at fighting against the expansion of the spheres of influence of the superpowers in the name of independence of Muslim countries, but year after year it has changed dramatically and at this stage it is used by the same superpowers to clarify the relationship between themselves.

It is already the second month, that “Talyshistan National Television” is aired. 15 TV shows that have made an action of a bomb explosion in Azerbaijan. Today, Azerbaijan is facing a dilemma: to react to it, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, or pretend that nothing is happening, but that is not possible, too?
Here are some thoughts of Talysh poet Zabil Madozh.