Arkadi Ghukassjan
Arkadi Ghukassjan ( Armenian Արկադի Ղուկասյան , in English transcription Arkady Ghoukasyan , Russian Аркадий Аршавирович Гукасян , in scientific transliteration : Arkadi Łukasyan ; born June 22, 1957 in Stepanakert , 1997 in Stepanakert , Azerbaijani -Karabakhstan , Azerbaijani -Karabakhstan , Azerbaijan -Karabakh- Azerbaijan, Xankannd region , from 1997 , Azerbaijani -Karabakh Autonomous Region , from 1997 to Azerbaijan -Karabakhstan , Azerbaijani -Karabakh Autonomous Region ; President of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh .
Name and pronunciation
Ghukas is the Armenian form of Luke . Contrary to what the Russian transliteration suggests, the name is not pronounced "Gukassjan". The “gh” is correctly pronounced as the high German “r” .
Journalistic and political career
According to official information, Ghukassyan graduated from school in 1974 and five years later he studied at the Russian Faculty. In 1980 he began as a correspondent for the newspaper Sowetakan Karabach (in German Soviet Karabakh) and became deputy editor-in-chief a year later. Since 1988 he has been involved in the Armenian Karabakh movement. Because of this, and because of his articles in which he sharply attacked the leadership of the Azerbaijani SSR, he was arrested in 1990 and spent a month in a prison in Rostov-on-Don and was repeatedly under house arrest thereafter. During the Nagorno-Karabakh War, he first worked as a front-line correspondent.
In 1992 Ghukassyan was elected to the first parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the National Assembly . He became political advisor to the National Defense Council and led the delegation in negotiations with the OSCE , which is responsible for regulating the conflict. In 1993 he became the first foreign minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and in the same year became a member of the National Defense Council.
After President Robert Kocharyan became Prime Minister of Armenia in 1997 , Arkady Ghukassyan won the early elections. This made him the commander in chief of the armed forces and chairman of the National Defense Council.
There has been ongoing speculation that Ghukassjan might use the adoption of a constitution to seek a third term (such as Aljaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus ). On October 11, 2006, Ghukassjan stated that he had no intention of running again. His term of office ended on July 19, 2007.
attack
On the night of March 22, 2000, Ghukassyan was assassinated in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh just a few meters from the presidential residence. Strangers opened fire on the car in which Ghukassjan and his two bodyguards were sitting. The head of state got away with a shot in the leg. Some analysts saw the attack as a direct link to the act of terrorism in the Armenian parliament in autumn 1999. a. Prime Minister Wasken Zarkissyan and Speaker of Parliament Karen Demirchyan had perished.
Private
Arkadi Ghukassjan is married and has two children.
Web links
- official website of the president (Armenian, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report to regnum.ru
- ↑ Совершено покушение на президента Нагорного Карабаха Аркадия Гукасяна. Новости. Первый канал. Retrieved November 28, 2017 (ru-RU).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghukassjan, Arkadi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ghoukasyan, Arkadi; Łukasyan, Arkadi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian politician, President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stepanakert , Soviet Union |