Davit Rubeni Ishkhanyan ( hy, Դավիթ Ռուբենի Իշխանյան; 27 December 1968) is an Armenian politician. A member of the

Armenian Revolutionary Federation The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian ...

, he was the

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of the

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of the

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from August to October 2023. He briefly served as acting

President of Artsakh The president of Artsakh or president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is the head of state and head of government of the ''de facto'' Republic of Artsakh. In a constitutional referendum held in 2017, citizens of the Republic voted in favor o ...

in September 2023. On 3 October 2023, he and three former presidents of Artsakh,

Arkadi Ghukasyan Arkadi Arshaviri Ghukasyan ( hy, Արկադի Արշավիրի Ղուկասյան, born 22 June 1957) was the second President of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was elected as the President on 8 September 1997 and re-elected i ...

Bako Sahakyan Bako Sahaki Sahakyan ( hy, Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Artsakhi politician who served as the third president of the ''de facto''-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving p ...

and

Arayik Harutyunyan Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan ( hy, Արայիկ Վլադիմիրի Հարությունյան; born 14 December 1973) is an Armenian politician who has been serving as the President of Artsakh since 2020. He was formerly the 1st State Minister fr ...

, were detained by the State Security Service of

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and brought to

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Political career

On 7 August 2023, Ishkhanyan was elected

of the

. Pursuant to Artsakh constitution article 98, he also became acting president within three days following the September 1 resignation of President

, holding it up until the

2023 Artsakhian presidential election Snap indirect presidential elections were held on 9 September 2023, in the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh. The President of the National Assembly of Artsakh acted as president until the election. The sole candidate, Samvel Shahramanyan, was ele ...

Samvel Shahramanyan Samvel Sergeyi Shahramanyan ( hy, Սամվել Սերգեյի Շահրամանյան; born 1 December 1978) is an Armenian politician serving since 10 September 2023 as the 5th and final president of the Republic of Artsakh, to be dissolved on 1 ...

would succeed Ishkhanyan in that post.

References

1968 births Living people Members of the National Assembly (Artsakh) People from Martuni Province Armenian Revolutionary Federation politicians Prisoners and detainees of Azerbaijan {{Artsakh-stub