Artur Harutyunyan (Armenian :ԱրթուրՀարությունյան;born 20 January 1979) is an Armenian politician from the Republic of Artsakh who served as its State Minister from 18 September 2023 to 1 January 2024. [1] He announced his resignation as leader of the Free Homeland-UCA faction and a member of the National Assembly on 11 September 2023. [2]
Arkadi Arshaviri Ghukasyan is an Armenian politician who served as the second President of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was elected as the President on 8 September 1997 and re-elected in 2002,until his term ended on 7 September 2007 and was succeeded by Bako Sahakyan. He was detained by Azerbaijani forces after the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and is currently facing criminal charges in Azerbaijan.
The Artsakh Defence Army was the defence force of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. Established in 1992,it united previously disorganized defence units which were formed in the early 1990s.
The National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of Artsakh.
The president of the Republic of Artsakh was the head of state and head of government of the de facto Republic of Artsakh.
Seyran Musheghi Ohanyan is an Armenian general and politician currently serving as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia. He served as Defence Minister of Armenia from 14 April 2008 until 3 October 2016. A native of Nagorno-Karabakh,he participated in both the first and second Karabakh wars,and from 2000 to 2007 served as defence minister of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh.
Bako Sahaki Sahakyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving president of Artsakh.
Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan is an Armenian politician who served as the fourth president of the Republic of Artsakh from May 2020 to September 2023. Under his predecessor Bako Sahakyan,he served as the sixth and last Prime Minister from 2007 until the abolishment of that position in 2017 and as the first State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh from 2017 until his resignation in 2018. Harutyunyan led Artsakh through the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War with Azerbaijan,during which the republic lost most of the territory under its control. He resigned on 1 September 2023 in the midst of the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Hero of Artsakh was the highest title of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. According to the official website of the President of Artsakh,the title Hero of Artsakh "is awarded for exceptional services in the defense of the state,strengthening its economic might,and for creating significant national values."
Vitaly Mikhaili Balasanyan is an Artsakhi politician and retired general. He served as the head of the National Security Council of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh from November 2016 to November 2019 and again from December 2020 to January 2023. For his services in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War,he was awarded the country's highest title,Hero of Artsakh. He previously served as a member of Artsakh's National Assembly. He twice ran,unsuccessfully,for the office of President of Artsakh.
General elections were held in the Republic of Artsakh on 31 March 2020,with a second round of the presidential election on 14 April. Voters elected the President and 33 members of the National Assembly. It was the first time the President and National Assembly were elected at the same time.
The Ministry of Defence of Artsakh was a government agency of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh. It was the executive body in implementing defence policies of the Artsakh Defence Army. The final minister of defence was Lieutenant General Kamo Vardanyan. Following an Azerbaijani assault on 19 September 2023,Artsakh agreed to dissolve itself by 1 January 2024.
The State Minister of Artsakh was a political post in the Republic of Artsakh. The position was introduced after constitutional amendments,which were approved in a constitutional referendum in 2017,and after the Prime Minister of Artsakh post was abolished.
Masis Samveli Mayilyan is a politician,diplomat and former presidential candidate who previously worked in the Republic of Artsakh. From September 2017 until January 2021,he served as the Foreign Minister of Artsakh.
Jalal Anatolii Harutyunyan is an Armenian general from the Republic of Artsakh who formerly served as Commander of the Artsakh Defense Army and Minister of Defense of Artsakh. He commanded the Artsakh Defense Army during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War until his dismissal on 27 October 2020 after being wounded in action. He was appointed Head of the Military Control Service of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia in February 2021. Harutyunyan was suspended from this role in connection with a criminal case opened against him in September 2022.
Mikael Alberti Arzumanyan is a Lieutenant General from the Republic of Artsakh,who formerly served as the Commander of the Artsakh Defence Army and Minister of Defence. He was born on 12 June 1973 in Stepanakert in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Armenak Urfanyan was an Armenian serviceman in the Artsakh Defense Army,captain of the Armed Forces of Armenia,participant of the Four-Day War. In 2020 he was posthumously awarded the Hero of Artsakh military award,which is the highest honorary title of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.
Events of the year 2023 in Armenia.
The 2022–23 season was FC Van's 3rd season in Armenian Premier League.
Samvel Sergeyi Shahramanyan is an Armenian politician who served as the 5th and final president of the Republic of Artsakh,from 10 September 2023 to 1 January 2024. He was also State Minister from August to September 2023. He also served as Minister of Military Patriotic Upbringing,Youth,Sports and Tourism,Secretary of the Security Council of Artsakh and a Major General in the Artsakh Defence Army.
Gurgen Garniki Nersisyan is an Armenian politician from the Republic of Artsakh. He was the State Minister of Artsakh from February to August 2023. He also served as the Prosecutor General of Artsakh from 2021 to 2023.