Igor Muradyan
Igor Muradyan (Armenian: Իգոր Մուրադյան, born April 29, 1957) is an Armenian political activist and politologist. He was one of the earliest leaders of the Karabakh movement,[1][2] along with Zori Balayan, Silva Kaputikyan and Viktor Hambardzumyan.[3][4]
Born in Nagorno-Karabakh, Muradyan grew up in Baku, where many Armenians lived during the Soviet period.[5] 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[5] among Party cadres."[6]
Muradyan was later critical of the separatist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh, 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.[7]
References
- ↑ 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 ([Online-Ausg.]. ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. 240. ISBN 9780814797099.
- 1 2 de Waal 2003, p. 16.
- ↑ de Waal 2003, p. 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.