Igor Muradyan (Armenian: Իգոր Մուրադյան, born April 29, 1957) is 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 Nagorno-Karabakh, 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[5] among Party cadres."[6]
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.
- ^ a b de Waal 2003, p. 16.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 17.
- 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.
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