… 15 children, 10 daughters and 5 sons: this is how many children the youngest parents in our republic, Martik and Angela, have. On the day of our visit, only one of the fifteen children was not home, for a very good reason. Daniel is a soldier.

For days, it was a real musical holiday in the Russian Federation’s Sakhalin Island. The Spasskaya Bashnya International Festival brought together members of the Armenian and Russian military bands.

An exhibition of paintings, titled “The Beginning of New Life,” by a young artist Hayk Galoyan was recently displayed at the American University of Armenia’s Akian Art Gallery.

The class of basic military training of the school no. 59 after Hakob Paronyan bears the name of Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, and the “platoon” of ninth-year schoolchildren – the name of the perished in the Artsakh war warrior Armen Hovhannisyan.

On 6 April 2016 together with the LBCI Lebanese television journalists I arrived in Yerevan from Beirut. In the volunteers registration point in Nubarashen I witnessed that hundreds of young volunteers, middle-aged men, war veterans came, even the disabled. They were all brought here by the call of their homeland and blood, consciousness of responsibilities that they have to defend their homeland. And they came, joyful, as if they came to the wedding. Yes, they were going to the wedding of defense of the fatherland.

For soldiers-liberators the most difficult, the most dangerous years of war at the same time were also the happiest. They always enthusiastically remember those years, miss the war in which they won. Maybe that led them again on the battlefield.

This question I asked the Dean of YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies Gurgen Melikyan.