WREATHS WERE PUT TO MONUMENT OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER

WREATHS WERE PUT TO MONUMENT OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23. ARMINFO. Wreaths were put to the monument of
Unknown soldier in Yerevan’s Victory Park. Though Feb 23, the day of
Soviet Army and Navy, and now the Day of defender of Homeland in
Russia, is not a holiday in Armenia now, but this day has been and
remains respected in the republic. Representatives of Ministry of
Defence of the Republic of Armenia and Russia’s Embassy in Armenia
took part in the ceremony of putting wreaths.

“Our army has been formed on the basis of the Soviet army, we all have
grown up in that country, besides, we all made sure that our Russian
colleagues took active part in celebration of the Day of Armenian
army”, Defence Minister of Armenia Serge Sargsian said.