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#43 (1112) 5.11.2015 – 11.11.2015

CALL-UP IS AN EVENT OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE

This call-up is already the 45th in the life of our state. Year by year, the requirements of the call-up become more clear and stringent. During this call-up, we’ll consider the health issues very strictly to permanently exclude cases of recruitment of boys with health problems. As is said, this issue will be under a magnifying glass. In the regional military enlistment offices a great attention will be paid to the work with relatives of recruits, everyone will be informed of the law “On Military Duty”.

FOR THE GOOD OF THE ARMY AND SOCIETY

Recently in the administrative complex of the RA Ministry of Defense a summary of the results of the Public Council under the Minister of Defense was held.
Chairman of the Board, adviser to the Defense Minister Gegham Harutyunyan, in his report, presenting the work done over the last 3 years, mentioned that the Council has constantly acted within the army-society relations and has always sought to contribute to the development of effective cooperation and collaboration between the army and society, allowing full provision of social and legal guarantees of servicemen, organized the visit of the intelligentsia, cultural groups in the military units.

HRANT MELIK-SHAHNAZARYAN. ARMENIAN ARMY IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM

In 2013 in the South Caucasus was a situational change, which was due to renewed geopolitical conflict between the West and Russia. Ukraine became the first victim of this rivalry. Then the Eastern Partnership program collapsed, the US-Russian cooperation in our region stopped, and finally – Syria.
From all of this – the first lesson for the Armenian side is the fact that the South Caucasus as a geopolitical unit, continues to have the impact of the processes taking place in the neighboring regions.

TV SERIES… ON MILITARY-PATRIOTIC THEMES

This project is completely different from other series: here is a different format, a different approach. We can say, mostly it is a multi-part feature film. This is the first series in Armenia on military-patriotic themes. Gisaneh Poghosyan has written a soundtrack specially for the movie. The film stars two generations of artists: Rudolf Ghevondyan, Sargis Grigoryan, Armen Soghoyan, Ashot Ter-Matevosyan, Rosie Avetisova etc.

SEPTEMBER 25: THE WATERSHED OF MY LIFE

25 September – this is the day that turned me into a different reality, this is the day when I really felt that I am a military… – tells chief of northeastern artillery military unit, Lieutenant Colonel Armen Sargsyan. – On this day, the enemy used grenade launchers of 60 and 82mm caliber. We received orders to return fire to suppress the firing points. That was my first combat action. In 2-3 hours we shot 60 mines. If from the enemy’s 10 shots 2 were aimed, in our case it was 7 of 10.