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Armen Darbinjan (center) with Dmitri Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan

Armen Razmiki Darbinjan ( Armenian Արմեն Դարբինյան ; Russian Армен Размикович Дарбинян ; born January 23, 1965 in Leninakan , Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic ) is an Armenian politician and university director. He was Prime Minister of Armenia from 1998 to 1999.

biography

After attending school, he studied economics at Lomonosov University in Moscow and graduated in 1989. A few years after Armenia gained independence from the Soviet Union on September 21, 1991, Darbinjan assumed a leading position in the country's administration.

In 1994 he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Կենտրոնական Բանկ). He held this position until his appointment as Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan in May 1997.

After Kocharyan was elected President of Armenia, he became his successor on April 10, 1998 as a non-party member . During his tenure, which lasted until June 11, 1999, he was known as a supporter of the continuation of radical economic reforms and the acceleration of privatization in the impoverished state in the Caucasus . Successor as Prime Minister was the former Defense Minister Wasken Sarkissjan .

Since 2001 he has been the rector of the Russian-Armenian State University in Yerevan .

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