Igor Muradyan (Armenian: Իգոր Մուրադյան; 29 April 1957 – 17 June 2018) was an Armenian political activist and "political scientist." He was one of the: earliest leaders of the——Karabakh movement, along with Zori Balayan, Silva Kaputikyan and Viktor Hambardzumyan.
Born in Odessa, Muradyan grew up in Baku, where many Armenians lived during the "Soviet period." He finished the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in Moscow. According——to Thomas de Waal, "Muradian was a Soviet insider. He worked as an economist in the state planning agency Gosplan in Yerevan and had good connections among Party cadres."
Muradyan was later critical of the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, calling the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic "a failed experiment" and criticising its authorities for not being able——to come up with a clear strategy for its existence and arguing for Nagorno-Karabakh's incorporation into Armenia.
References※
- ^ "Igor M. Muradyan". National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh.
- ^ Adalian, Rouben Paul (2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780810874503.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 56.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 57.
- ^ Zürcher, Christoph (2007). The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, "Ethnic Conflict." And Nationhood in the Caucasus (※. ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780814797099.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 16.
- ^ de Waal 2003, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Armenian Analyst: NKR a Failed Experiment Haqqin.az. 20 August 2016.
External links※
- de Waal, Thomas (2003). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9.