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#12 (1081) 2.04.2015 – 8.04.2015

IN THE TURKISH-IRANIAN RELATIONS A TREND IN DEVELOPMENT OF TENSION IS NOTICEABLE

Last week, President Erdogan made a tough anti-Iranian statement in which he condemned the Iranian authorities that they openly interfere in the ongoing processes in Yemen.
Now, when the resolution of the nuclear issue of Iran is near, and Tehran will be able to conduct more at ease regional policy, Turkey and Saudi Arabia became very concerned, who are not ready to accept the new possible role of Iran.

ON THE FATHER’S PATH

I am very picky about myself. When they wanted to assign me as a company commander, I refused and asked to be sent on retraining courses. I always compare myself with my father, he is the ideal image of the military. He never said he was proud of me. But the other day he came home very happy and said: “If before somebody saw you, they said – this is Ivan’s son, and now somebody greeted me and asked – are you the father of Captain Mehrabian?”

CHINA – STRATEGIC PARTNER OF ARMENIA

The visit of President Serzh Sargsyan to China was quite eventful in terms of meetings, the signed documents, and in terms of making Armenia recognizable in Asia.
With this visit the Armenian-Chinese relations have been put on a new level of strategic partnership. We can say that this visit is our major foreign policy achievement of recent times.
More than a dozen documents on the development and strengthening of bilateral cooperation in various fields were signed. On the basis of their content can be said that the visit may be a turning point not only for our country but also the region as a whole.

GENOCIDE IN CARTOONS

In the Artists’ Union of Armenia the festival “Sun Dragon 2015” was opened, named – “Pandora’s Box”, which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
It may seem strange to touch such a difficult, tragic theme by cartoons’ “language”, but let’s not forget that a cartoon is a serious means of propaganda.

ON DUTY: SERVICE FEATURES

– Military training is always accompanied by the lessons of combat training. Through historical episodes we introduce a soldier with the tactics of our ancestors, how to win with small number and appliances – says Major V.Stepanyan.
Officers every day talk about Genocide, and this is done with a clear goal – to get rid of victim complex. Here is a comparison: in 1915, 8 million Turks committed genocide in relation to the 3 million of our fellow citizens, and during the Artsakh war was the same size – 3 mln Armenians against 7 mln Azerbaijanis, and we were able to win.