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National Security Service (Armenia)
National Security Service of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Ազգային Անվտանգության Ծառայություն, translit=Hayastani Azgayin Anvtangut’yan Tsarrayut’yun) is a state agency of Armenia, responsible for national security and intelligence and providing border troops, cryptographers, and the personal security to the Prime Minister of Armenia. History In late September 1991, the Soviet republic of Armenia declared its independence and therefore began the process of restructuring its Soviet-era security agencies, including the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Armenian SSR. According to a law on the structure and composition of the government adopted on 4 December 1991, the KGB was renamed into the State Directorate of National Security, with Major General Husik Suren Harutyunyan becoming its first director, serving until February 1992. Between 1996 and 1999, the government went through the process of uniting the Ministry of National Secur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee For State Security Of The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Committee for State Security of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian:Комитет государственной безопасности Армянской ССР) or KGB of ArSSR was the security agency of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, being the local branch of Committee for State Security of the USSR. It was the principal intelligence agency of Armenia from 1954 to 1991. It was succeeded by the National Security Service after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The KGB in Armenia often provided undercover agents to be stationed inside the Armenian Apostolic Church, due to the church's prevalence in the country. The Armenian KGB fell under the direct control of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, although the Communist Party of the Soviet Union could take control and also direct its activities. History In 1929, the NKVD of the Armenian SSR, which was the Armenian equivalent to the national NKVD headquarters in Moscow was dissolved a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Vanetsyan
Artur Gagiki Vanetsyan ( hy, Արթուր Գագիկի Վանեցյան, born 9 December 1979) is an Armenian politician who served as the director of the National Security Service of Armenia (2018–2019), president of Football Federation of Armenia (2018–2019), and is the founder and chairman of the center-right Homeland Party. Political career On November 11, after the Armenian defeat on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, he was arrested among other opposition leaders on charges of "illegal conduction of rallies". On November 13, they were freed after a Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction deemed their arrests unlawful. On November 14, he was detained again, this time by the National Security Service (which he headed between 2018 and 2019) on the suspicion of usurping power and preparing the assassination of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. On November 15, he was freed again after the court declared the detention as unlawful. Artur Vanetsyan was nominated to lead the I Have H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Established In 1992
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Of Armenia
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and Tyrant, tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosecutor General Of Armenia
The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia () is a government agency tasked for supervising the public procurator system in Armenia, exercising its authority through the Prosecutor General of Armenia. It oversees the enforcement of Armenian law by law enforcement agencies such as the Police of Armenia and the National Security Service. The office is located on 5 Vazgen Sargsyan Street, Yerevan. The current Prosecutor General is Anna Vardapetyan. History The Prosecutor General's Office of the First Republic of Armenia began to operate on 6 December 1918, when the ruling council adopted the law "On the application of the laws of the former Russian Empire on the territory of Armenia”. In December 1922, the Soviet Union began to create its own governmental institutions and legal systems. During this period, a prosecutor’s office in the USSR Supreme Court, with a subdivision of that office being created in the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (which was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Vanetsyan
Artur Gagiki Vanetsyan ( hy, Արթուր Գագիկի Վանեցյան, born 9 December 1979) is an Armenian politician who served as the director of the National Security Service of Armenia (2018–2019), president of Football Federation of Armenia (2018–2019), and is the founder and chairman of the center-right Homeland Party. Political career On November 11, after the Armenian defeat on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, he was arrested among other opposition leaders on charges of "illegal conduction of rallies". On November 13, they were freed after a Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction deemed their arrests unlawful. On November 14, he was detained again, this time by the National Security Service (which he headed between 2018 and 2019) on the suspicion of usurping power and preparing the assassination of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. On November 15, he was freed again after the court declared the detention as unlawful. Artur Vanetsyan was nominated to lead the I Have Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Kutoyan
Georgi Kutoyan ( hy, Գեորգի Կուտոյան; 30 September 1981 – 17 January 2020) was an Armenian lawyer and director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia between 2016 and 2018. Biography Education From 1998 to 2000 he received his military training at the Department of Military Training at Rostov State University in Russia with the program of training of reserve officers. In 2002, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the same university. In 2005, Kutoyan graduated from the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. In 2007, he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Kutoyan was awarded a Cambridge Trust Scholarship for the 2019-20 academic year to study law at St Edmund's College. Career 2002 – 2010, Lecturer at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, the Academy of Public Administration of Armenia and the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. 2005 – 2006, worked in the system of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serzh Sargsyan
Serzh Azati Sargsyan ( hy, Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, ; born 30 June 1954)Official biography of Serzh Sargsyan President.am. Retrieved on 21 June 2014. is an n politician who served as the third from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Staff Of The Armenian Armed Forces
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի զինված ուժերի գլխավոր շտաբ, ''Hayastani zinvats uzheri glkhavor shtab'') is the military staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia. The current Chief of the General Staff is Major General Edvard Asryan. The headquarters of the General Staff is located on 0044 Bagrevand Street in the Nor Nork District of Yerevan. General information The general staff is the chief organizing and executive body in the armed forces responsible for maintaining its combat readiness. It is subordinate in precedence to the Ministry of Defense. According to the Military Doctrine of Armenia, the functions of the General Staff of the Armed Forces includeMilitary Doctrine of Armenia. Paragraph 51On the website of the RA Ministry of Defense/ref> the holistic operational command and control of troops, including combat units and rear support units, as well as the planning and coordination of peacetime activities of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Armenian Coup D'état Attempt
The 2021 Armenian political crisis was an alleged military coup attempt by the Armed Forces of Armenia led by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan against the government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Pashinyan accused Gasparyan and 40 other high-ranking military officers of attempting a coup after they published a statement calling for Pashinyan's resignation on 25 February 2021. Background Anti-government protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have been ongoing in Armenia since the country's defeat in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. On 23 February 2021, Pashinyan gave an interview where, in response to claims made by former president Serzh Sargsyan, he cast doubt on the effectiveness of Armenia's Russian-supplied 9K720 Iskander missiles, implying that they were ineffective when used during the war against Azerbaijan. The next day, first deputy chief of the General Staff Tiran Khachatryan gave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defence (Armenia)
The Ministry of Defence of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի պաշտպանության նախարարություն) often abbreviated to the RA Ministry of Defence is an Armenian governmental agency in charge of overseeing the development of the Armed Forces of Armenia. The Ministry of Defense is also the executive body which implements the policies of the Armenian Government in the defense sector. It particularly oversees the budget of the armed forces and ensures the safety of troops. It is located on 5 Bagrevand Street, Yerevan. The ministry was officially established on 28 January 1992 by decree of the President of Armenia. History On 5 December 1991, by the decision of the Government of the Armenian SSR, the State Defense Committee under the Council of Ministers was created. The first head of this department was Vazgen Sargsyan. On 28 January 1992, the Government of Armenia adopted a resolution "On the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia", which was actually a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikol Pashinyan
Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan ( hy, Նիկոլ Վովայի Փաշինյան, ; born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician serving as the prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1998, which was shut down a year later for libel. He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan. He edited the newspaper ''Haykakan Zhamanak'' ("Armenian Times") from 1999 to 2012. A supporter of Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allies, frequently referring to them as the "Karabakh Clan". Pashinyan was also critical of Armenia's close relations with Russia, and promoted establishing closer relations with Turkey instead. He led a minor opposition party in the 2007 parliamentary election, garnering 1.3% of the vote. Pashinyan was a dedicated supporter of Ter-Petrosyan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
