Igor Muradyan

Muradyan in 2013

Igor Muradyan (Armenian: Իգոր Մուրադյան; 29 April 1957 – 17 June 2018)[1] was an Armenian political activist and political scientist. He was one of the earliest leaders of the Karabakh movement,[2][3] along with Zori Balayan, Silva Kaputikyan and Viktor Hambardzumyan.[4][5]

Born in Odessa, Muradyan grew up in Baku, where many Armenians lived during the Soviet period.[6] 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."[7]

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.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Igor M. Muradyan". National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  2. ^ Adalian, Rouben Paul (2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780810874503.
  3. ^ de Waal 2003, p. 56.
  4. ^ de Waal 2003, p. 57.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ de Waal 2003, p. 16.
  7. ^ de Waal 2003, pp. 16–17.
  8. ^ Armenian Analyst: NKR a Failed Experiment Haqqin.az. 20 August 2016.