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Serge Sargsyan

Serzh Sargsyan
Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան
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3rd President of Armenia
Assumed office
9 April 2008
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
Hovik Abrahamyan
Karen Karapetyan
Preceded by Robert Kocharyan
Prime Minister of Armenia
In office
4 April 2007 – 9 April 2008
Acting: 25 March 2007 – 4 April 2007
President Robert Kocharyan
Preceded by Andranik Margaryan
Succeeded by Tigran Sargsyan
Minister of Defence
In office
20 May 2000 – 26 March 2007
Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan
Preceded by Vagharshak Harutiunyan
Succeeded by Mikael Harutyunyan
In office
21 August 1993 – 17 May 1995
Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan
Preceded by Vazgen Manukyan
Succeeded by Vazgen Sargsyan
Minister of Interior and National Security
In office
4 November 1996 – 11 June 1999
Prime Minister Armen Sargsyan
Robert Kocharyan
Armen Darbinyan
Preceded by Vano Siradeghyan
Succeeded by Suren Abrahamyan
Personal details
Born (1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 62)
Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Communist Party (Before 1990)
Republican Party (1990–present)
Spouse(s) Rita Dadayan (1983–present)
Children Anush
Satenik
Alma mater Yerevan State University
Religion Armenian Apostolicism
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Website Government website

Serzh Azati Sargsyan (Armenian: Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, pronounced [sɛɾʒ sɑɾkʰəsˈjɑn]; born 30 June 1954) is the third and current President of Armenia. He won the February 2008 presidential election with the backing of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman, and took office in April 2008. On 18 February 2013, he was re-elected as President.

Serzh Sargsyan was born on 30 June 1954 in Stepanakert in the Nagorno Karabakh Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. He entered Yerevan State University in 1971, served in the Soviet Armed Forces during 1971–72, and graduated from the Philological Department of Yerevan State University in 1979. In 1983, he married his wife, Rita, with whom he has two daughters, Anush and Satenik. They have two granddaughters, Mariam and Rita, and two grandsons, Ara and Serzh. Sargsyan is also the chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation. In addition to his native Armenian, he is fluent in Russian. He is of no relation to the former Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan.

Sargsyan's career began in 1975 at the Electrical Devices Factory in Yerevan.

In 1979 when he became head of the Stepanakert City Communist Party Youth Association Committee. Then he served as the Second Secretary, the First Secretary, the Stepanakert City Committee Propaganda Division Head, the Nagorno-Karabakh Regional Committee Communist Organizations' Unit Instructor, and finally as the assistant to Genrikh Poghosyan, the First Secretary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Regional Committee.


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