Andranik Migranyan ( hy, Անդրանիկ Միհրանյան; russian: Андраник Мигранян; born 10 February 1949 in

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, Armenia) is an Armenian-born Russian politologist, who works as a professor at the

Moscow State Institute of International Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО), also known as MGIMO University) is an institute of ...

Academy

He holds a PhD degree (1978) from the Institute of International Labor Movement, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Andranik Migranyan has been a visiting fellow at Harriman Institute, Columbia University; San Diego State University. He is an author of a number of articles, books, hundreds of publications.

Advisor

During the 1990s he was an advisor to

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

. From 1993 till 2000 he was a Member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation. In 1994 served as Chief Advisor to the Committee on CIS Problems in the Russian Parliament (Duma). From 2008 to 2015 he was the director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York, founded in 2007.

Views

In 2011, during the

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he said that there is a chance that Muammar Gaddafi will be imprisoned rather than sent out of the country like it happened in

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. In 2013 he said that he admires

Raffi Hovannisian Raffi K. Richardi Hovannisian ( hy, Րաֆֆի Կ. Ռիչարդի Հովհաննիսյան; hyw, Րաֆֆի Կ. Ռիչարդի Յովհաննէսեան; born 20 November 1959) is an Armenian politician, the first Foreign Minister of Armenia and t ...

but doesn't think he will make a good politician. In 2014, he argued with Andrey Zubov about the role of Hitler and the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and in an

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article he stated that there was a difference between Hitler before 1939 and Hitler after 1939, and that Hitler without a single drop of blood has united Germany with Austria, and Sudetenland and Memel to Germany, something what Otto von Bismarck was unable to do. In 2018, he called hundred thousands of protesters participating in Armenian Velvet Revolution "dirt" (охлосом, чернью, и мразью).

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* * * * * 1949 births Living people Russian political scientists Armenian political scientists Russian people of Armenian descent Academic staff of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation {{Armenia-bio-stub