Servicemen of the regiment under the command of Lt. Colonel S.Ghukasyan are very serious about their service. They are deeply aware that they are required not to relax, be careful and not to exclude the possibility of sabotage.
In recent days, due to engineering works in the strongholds the number of soldiers increased. Soldiers of engineering sapper company, after performing their daily tasks, are also involved in the alert.

Response of psychologist, reserve officer Tigran Khazaryan to the article “We’ll win with minimal losses” (“Hay Zinvor”, no. 28), which provides a conversation with chief of RA AF GS operative department Major General Artak Davtyan.

Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian propaganda does not stop. Our people stand proudly and confidently, with dignity. We have always been patient, but at the same time, vigilant. Many are hoping for the mind of the Azerbaijani people, whith whom there were many cases of living side by side, sharing a meal… That was yesterday, let’s remember immortal Tumanyan and his poem “Ahmad”… This is so even today…

Today in the bus one woman’s mobile rang. Excitedly she asked the passengers not to make noise: «This is my son, calls from the regiment, 10 days I haven’t talked to him… Please, don’t make noise», – and everybody kept quiet.
«Hello, my son. How are you? How did duty go? You are not hungry?… Yes, just like that, behave like a man. Military service is a man’s job… Listen to the officers, don’t argue with them, Treat them as senior fellow … Your whole life we with your father protected you, and now is your turn to protect us. My son, be careful… You must know, we are waiting for you… Ok, bye, go to sleep… Kisses».

Recently our photographer Areg Vardanyan was sent to one of the south-western regiments. Face of one of the soldiers seemed him familiar. It was soldier Rustam Greyan, whose picture Areg took six months ago in the assembly point. Now he’s grown up, he held machine in his hands confidently.

On July 23 graduates of the Military Institute after Vazgen Sargsyan on the principle of the draw had to choose their place of service (regiment). Before the draw 1st Deputy of Defense Minister D.Tonoyan asked – are there those who are willing to serve on the front line voluntarily? Dozens of graduates stood up and without hesitation chose the military units which implement combat duty and are away from the capital for several hundred kilometers. Their choice was awarded with a storm of applause.

Yet in 2012 we prepared and published a three-volume collection of documents “Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: evidence of survivors”, which includes the evidence of miraculously saved people about massacre and genocide by Turkish authorities in their settlements in 1916-1917. The book has received a great response among the readers of both Armenia and the Diaspora, even in Turkey. Even Turkish historians asked me to organize the publication of the collection in the Turkish language. Recently the Turkish translation of the book was published in Istanbul by the publishing house of Turkish human rights activist Zaqep Zakaroglu. The book will be translated also in Russian, French, Spanish and other languages.