Arayik Harutyunyan
Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan (Armenian: Արայիկ Վլադիմիրի Հարությունյան; born 14 December 1973) 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.
Arayik Harutyunyan | |
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| Արայիկ Հարությունյան | |
Harutyunyan in 2020 | |
| 4th President of Artsakh | |
| In office 21 May 2020 – 1 September 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Grigory Martirosyan Artak Beglaryan Ruben Vardanyan Gurgen Nersisyan Samvel Shahramanyan |
| Preceded by | Bako Sahakyan |
| Succeeded by | Davit Ishkhanyan (acting) Samvel Shahramanyan |
| 1st State Minister of Artsakh | |
| In office 25 September 2017 – 6 June 2018 | |
| President | Bako Sahakyan |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Grigory Martirosyan |
| 6th Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic | |
| In office 14 September 2007 – 25 September 2017 | |
| President | Bako Sahakyan |
| Preceded by | Anushavan Danielyan |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 December 1973 Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Free Motherland |
| Spouse | Kristina Harutyunyan |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Artur Harutyunyan |
| Residence(s) | Yerevan, Armenia |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State Institute of Economy Artsakh University |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Republic of Artsakh |
| Branch/service | Artsakh Defense Army |
| Years of service | 1992–1994 |
| Battles/wars | First Nagorno-Karabakh War |
On 3 October 2023, he and two other former presidents of Artsakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan, together with former president of the National Assembly Davit Ishkhanyan, were detained by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan and brought to Baku.