Serzh Sargsyan
| Serzh Sargsyan Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան |
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| 3rd President of Armenia | |
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Assumed office 9 April 2008 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tigran Sargsyan Hovik Abrahamyan Karen Karapetyan |
| Preceded by | Robert Kocharyan |
| Prime Minister of Armenia | |
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In office 4 April 2007 – 9 April 2008 Acting: 25 March 2007 – 4 April 2007 |
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| President | Robert Kocharyan |
| Preceded by | Andranik Margaryan |
| Succeeded by | Tigran Sargsyan |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 20 May 2000 – 26 March 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Andranik Margaryan |
| Preceded by | Vagharshak Harutiunyan |
| Succeeded by | Mikael Harutyunyan |
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In office 21 August 1993 – 17 May 1995 |
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| Prime Minister | Hrant Bagratyan |
| Preceded by | Vazgen Manukyan |
| Succeeded by | Vazgen Sargsyan |
| Minister of Interior and National Security | |
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In office 4 November 1996 – 11 June 1999 |
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| Prime Minister |
Armen Sargsyan Robert Kocharyan Armen Darbinyan |
| Preceded by | Vano Siradeghyan |
| Succeeded by | Suren Abrahamyan |
| Personal details | |
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30 June 1954 Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (now Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) |
| 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, Azerbaijan SSR, Nagorno Karabakh Oblast. 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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