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[[File:Igor-Muradyan.jpg|thumbnailthumb|Muradyan in 2013]]
 
'''Igor Muradyan''' ({{lang-hy|Իգոր Մուրադյան}}; 29 April 1957 – 17 June 2018)<ref>[https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/society/20180617/12706331/umer-igor-muradyan---pervyj-rukovoditel-komiteta-karabah.html Умер Игорь Мурадян – первый руководитель комитета "Карабах"]</ref> was an [[Armenians|Armenian]] political activist and politologist. He was one of the earliest leaders of the [[Karabakh movement]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Adalian|first=Rouben Paul|title=Historical Dictionary of Armenia|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=9780810874503|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PA159&dq=Igor+Muradian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KKUaUvOfHZSt4AO57YCwCQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Igor%20Muradian&f=false 159]|edition=2nd|authorlink=Rouben Paul Adalian}}</ref>{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=56}} along with
[[Zori Balayan]], [[Silva Kaputikyan]] and [[Viktor Hambardzumyan]].{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=57}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Zürcher|first=Christoph|title=The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus|year=2007|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780814797099|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C0DTtKEktdEC&pg=PA240&dq=Igor+Muradian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=laUaUv2xB-ni4APhzoCwDw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Igor%20Muradian&f=false 240]|edition=[Online-Ausg.].|authorlink=Christoph Zürcher}}</ref>
 
Born in [[Odessa]], Muradyan grew up in [[Baku]], where many [[Armenians in Baku|Armenians lived]] during the Soviet period.{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=16}} 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{{sfn|de Waal|2003|p=16}} among Party cadres."{{sfn|de Waal|2003|ppp=16-17}}
 
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.<ref>[http://haqqin.az/news/78199 Armenian Analyst: NKR a Failed Experiment] ''Haqqin.az''. 20 August 2016.</ref> and arguing for Nagorno Karabakh's incorporation into Armenia.
 
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