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    TACTICAL EXERCISE HELD AT RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE IN ARMENIA

    Zvezda TV, Russia
    April 24 2008

    [Presenter] Shots were heard in Armenian Gyumri today. Military
    training was conducted at the Russian military base there. Gyumri is
    the country's southernmost outpost. This is why our soldiers there
    need ideal tactical skills. This time, according to the plan of
    the exercise, the enemy was trying to break through to the Russian
    borders. Our special correspondent Andrey Kovtunenko reports from
    Gyumri, where there is always full combat readiness.

    [Correspondent] This is a scheduled live firing at the Gamkhut range,
    a few kilometres away from [the Armenian town of] Gyumri, where the
    headquarters of the 102nd Russian military base is situated. Servicemen
    of the 128th motor-rifle regiment are conducting effective fire.

    [Unidentified speaker] The climate here allows one to shoot both in
    winter and in summer.

    [Correspondent] While some servicemen are shooting, others are
    practising hand-to-hand fight. [Passage omitted]

    Here on a training ground servicemen are taught to drive T-72
    tanks. The aim is to teach servicemen to drive equipment on difficult
    to access terrain at a maximum speed in various seasons and at various
    times of the day.

    Meanwhile, servicemen at the base are having a marching drill. [Passage
    omitted].

    >From 1992, according to an agreement between Russia and Armenia,
    our servicemen guard Southern borders here.

    [Aleksandr Peryayev, commander of the 102nd Russian military base,
    captioned] The 102nd military base here on the territory of the
    Republic of Armenia, performs the tasks of defending the southern
    border of the Russian Federation and, together with CIS military units,
    carries out air defence tasks.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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