We were looking at night lights of their city and missing Yerevan. On New Year’s eve we were standing on the highest combat point of the world. In the same hour, when the whole Armenian people was celebrating New Year by drinking a toast to us also, we – the soldiers serving on the front line, were looking at the night lights of Khanlar and tried to imagine our city and our hearth.

Pursuant to the New Year’s message- call 2014 of Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan “Army is our house, our fortress”, on December 20 a visit was organized to a military unit of the 3rd Army Corps on the initiative of Chairman of the military-patriotic NGO “Tigran The Great” Koryun Ghumashyan.

Zohrab Yeganyan on his FB-page wrote about small feat of ordinary soldier who serves in Artsakh.
“Yesterday we met with the commander of the border military unit, and he told us an interesting case that expresses morale in today’s Army.
In early August, when the Azeris carried out the first acts of sabotage and we got our first loss, one soldier of the military unit N had to go on a 10-day vacation. His family members were already waiting for him. However, in the morning the soldier came to the commander and refused to leave, saying that “at this moment I can not leave the guys and go to a safe place”.

Dear Armenian people!
Messrs officers, soldiers and warriors-liberators!
Congratulations to all for a Happy New Year, I wish you health, happiness and most importantly – peace that we have defended during this year – in 2014, which was full of dangers and challenges. This past year was filled with not only unprecedented tension on the border, but also achievements in army building. Despite ongoing provocations, a large amount of work has been carried out in the areas of improving combat training and safety of alerting. Particular attention was paid to the implementation of new and more complex combat training tasks, preparation of special units.

Dear generals, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, special civil servants of the Armenian Army and serving workers!
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
On the eve of the New Year it’s always a good reason to summarize and evaluate the work of 12 months. Our common efforts and hard work were marked by a number of outstanding successes.

Dear defenders of our Motherland!
Christmas and New Year holidays, on the one hand, are a time of joy and laughter, song and dance, and on the other hand, the period of reflection, generalization of the work done, the exam period for ourselves.
During the passing year in unequal border battles heroically died brave defenders of our homeland, inflicting also fatal blows to the enemy. Service is tempered by tests, it is a mean to cleanse the hardening of our mind and soul.

Helping hand of philanthropist Vaheh Badalyan to the families of perished this year soldiers, was a manifestation of an unprecedented cooperation and goodwill.
On December 23 Vaheh Badalyan on the board of the Union of Volunteers Yerkrapah (UVY) made a patriotic initiative, and provided with 1 million drams to the relatives of soldiers who gave their lives defending our country. V.Badalyan assured that this program will continue.