Igor Muradyan
Igor Muradyan (Armenian: Իգոր Մուրադյան; 29 April 1957 – 17 June 2018) was 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 Odessa, 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 among Party cadres."[6]
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.[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.
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)