Ashot Manucharyan

Ashot Manucharyan

Ashot Manucharyan (Armenian: Աշոտ Մանուչարյան, born 1954 in Yerevan) is an Armenian educator, democratic socialist[1][2] politician, and one of the founding members of the Karabakh Committee.[3] After the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1991, he served as Minister of Internal Affairs from 1991 to 1992 and as Levon Ter-Petrosyan's National Security Adviser until 1993.[4] Together with Ashot Dabaghyan and Ashot Bleyan, Manucharyan co-founded School No. 183, later known as the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex, which stresses a humanistic approach to education.[5]

References

1. Libaridian, Gerald J. (2007). Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9781412813518.
2. Smith, Hedrick (1990). The New Russians. New York: Random House. p. 330. ISBN 978-0394581903.
3. Smith. The New Russians. p. 328.
4. de Waal, Thomas (2013). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, 10th Year Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated. NYU Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780814785782.
5. Malkasian, Mark (1996). "Gha-ra-bagh!": The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 79–81. ISBN 978-0814326046.