Paruyr Ayrikyan Biography

Paruyr Airikyan: politician, leader, dissident signature for the photo, veteran of Armenian politics Paruyr Ayrikyan participated in several presidential campaigns on February 1, Paruyr Ayrikyan, is one of the brightest figures of the public and political life of Armenia. The veteran of Armenian policy, the summer leader of the party "Association of self -determination" during the years of independence occupied a number of important posts.

He was a member of the parliament, a presidential candidate, the governor and headed the Human Rights Commission - before the introduction of the Ombudsman Institute. Ayrikyan began to engage in politics in his school years. In the middle of the x, in the wake of the Khrushchev thaw, he joined the prohibited national united party, participated in the creation of illegal underground cells of the party.

He was 19 years old when he was arrested for the first time in the year.

In total, he spent more than 17 years in Soviet prisons and camps - Ayrikyan himself called this "the USSR record among political prisoners." As a result, provisions that contradict the Constitution of the Soviet Union were excluded from the program, and the main goal of the activity was the holding of a referendum on the withdrawal of Armenia from the USSR. The right to a referendum was based on the Constitution of the country.

In the year, Ayrikyan returned from exile to Yerevan and founded the Union "National Self -Definition". In the year, Ayrikyan is arrested, then deprived of Soviet citizenship and sent to Ethiopia. Thus, he became the last Soviet dissident, expelled from the country. However, they were forced to agree with his return to the USSR, after Ayrikyan was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic.

In the post -Soviet years, he actively participated in the political life of independent Armenia. Ayrikyan was a presidential candidate in all elections except the year. In the elections and years, Ayrikyan rented his candidacy in favor of one of the opposition candidates. In the years, Paruir Aikyan headed the President of Armenia to prepare constitutional changes, and then was the chairman of the Human Rights Commission, which existed before the entry into the country of the Ombudsman Institute.

In recent years, the political influence of Ayrikyan and the ratings of the part of the "Association of Self -determination" led by him were gradually declining. Many political figures of post -Soviet Armenia at different periods were associated with the Airikyan party. Among them is the ex-dissident who spent 12 years old in Soviet prisons and camps, the founder of the now-ruling Republican Party, Ashot Navasardyan, who was killed within the walls of parliament on October 27, Vice Speaker Yuri Bakhshyan, one of the candidates in the current presidential election of Aram Harutyunyan.