Mikael Harutunjan

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Mikael Harutunjan ( Armenian ՄիքաելՀարությունյան; born February 10, 1946 in the village of Saqiyan , Şamaxı Province , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ) is an Armenian Colonel General and former Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia .

biography

Harutunjan received his first military training between 1963 and 1967 in the Higher Combined Command School of the Azerbaijani SSR in Baku . From 1967 to 1973 he served in the Soviet army as the commander of a train, then as the commander of a reconnaissance unit.

Between 1973 and 1976 Harutunjan continued his military career in the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow . Upon graduation, he was promoted to head of scouting for a motorized division in Yerevan . In 1982 Harutunjan was briefly employed as head of the reconnaissance department of the Soviet military corps in Kutaisi .

From 1983 to 1986 Harutunjan served as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Reconnaissance Department of the 7th Soviet Guards Army , which was part of the Transcaucasian Military District . He then went through further training over the next two years at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Forces in Moscow, where he worked as a lecturer until the dissolution of the Soviet Union .

Between 1992 and 1994 Harutunjan was first deputy chief of staff, from 1994 to 2007 chief of staff of the Armenian armed forces and thus first deputy defense minister of Armenia. In 2002 he was promoted to Colonel General.

In April 2007 Harutunjan was appointed Defense Minister of Armenia. A year later, the newly elected President Serzh Sargsyan appointed him military inspector and his advisor.

Others

After the revolution in Armenia in 2018 , Harutunjan fled to Russia . In connection with the brutal crackdown on protests in Armenia in 2008 , in which ten people were killed, he is charged with summoning army units to Yerevan, imposing martial law and giving orders to shoot the demonstrators. He is under criminal investigation for the "overthrow of the constitutional order". In August 2018, Russia rejected the Armenian side's request to extradite Harutunyan to Armenia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ АРУТЮНЯН МИКАЕЛ АРУТЮНОВИЧ. In: Центр военно-политических исследований. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ АРМЕНИИ НАЗНАЧИЛ МИКАЕЛА АРУТЮНЯНА МИНИСТРОМ ОБОРОНЫ СТРАНЫ. In: Arka News Agency. April 26, 2007, Retrieved May 17, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ^ By the Decree of President M. Harutyunyan was appointed chief military inspector. In: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia. April 16, 2008, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Siranush Ghazanchyan: Armenia's ex-Defense Minister accused of overthrowing Constitutional order in 2008. July 3, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ Russia 'won't extradite' former Defense Minister wanted by Armenia. In: panarmenian.net. August 31, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Harutunjan, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian Colonel General, Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Village Saqiyan , Province Şamaxı , Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR