Vano Siradeghyan
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| Mayor of Yerevan | |
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In office November 14, 1996 – February 2, 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Ashot Mirzoyan |
| Succeeded by | Suren Abrahamyan |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | |
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In office February 10, 1992 – November 8, 1996 |
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| President | Levon Ter-Petrosyan |
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November 13, 1946 Koti, Armenian SSR |
| Political party | Pan-Armenian National Movement |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Armenian |
| Religion | Armenian Apostolic Church |
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 Vano Siradeghyan
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Siradeghyan's mugshot
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 Siradeghyan talks about the 1996 election on YouTube
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Siradeghyan's last interview on YouTube
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Vano Siradeghyan (Armenian: Վանո Սիրադեղյան; born November 13, 1946) is an Armenian politician and writer. He held several high-ranked positions in the 1990s. Between 1992 and 1996 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Mayor of Yerevan from 1996 to 1998. After President Levon Ter-Petrosyan's resignation in February 1998, criminal charges were filed against him. Siradeghyan disappeared in April 2000 and since then he is wanted by the Interpol. Today, Siradeghyan is seen as one of the most influential and controversial figures of post-Soviet Armenia.
Siradeghyan was born in the village of Koti in north-eastern Armenia, near the Azerbaijani border in 1946. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Soviet Army and five years after coming back home graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1974. In 1983 he published his first book named Kiraki (Sunday).
He is married with five children.
In 1988, Siradeghyan became one of the main members of the Karabakh Committee, which demanded the Soviet authorities to incorporate the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan with Armenia. In December 1989, the leading committee members, including Siradeghyan, were arrested but were freed in May 1990. The Pan-Armenian National Movement was founded by its members the same year.
Siradeghyan was appointed the Minister of Interior Affairs in 1992 by President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, where he remained until 1996. According to the University of California, Berkeley Pr. Stephan H. Astourian, Siradeghyan "controlled part of the local market in oil products, part of the incomes generated from transport junctions, the greater part of the food market, the smaller part of bread production, and the woodwork and timber industry."
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