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]
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]