Andranik Migranyan

Andranik Migranyan

Andranik Migranyan (Russian: Андраник Мигранян; Armenian: Անդրանիկ Միհրանյան; born 10 February 1949 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian-born Russian politologist, who works as a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and as a director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation.[1][2][3]

During the 1990s he was an advisor to Boris Yeltsin.[4]

From 1993 till 2000 was a Member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation.

In 1994 served as Chief Advisor to the Committee on CIS Problems in the Russian Parliament (Duma).

Holds a PhD degree(1978), Institute of International Labor Movement, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Andranik Migranyan has been a visiting fellow at Harriman Institute, Columbia University; San Diego State University. Author of a number of articles, books, hundreds of publications. Since 2008 - director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York.

In 2011, during the Libyan Civil War he said that there is a chance that Muammar Gaddafi will be imprisoned rather than sent out of the country like it happened in Egypt.[5]

In 2013 he said that he admires Raffi Hovannisian but doesn't think he will make a good politician.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Sanctions Will Have No Effect on Russia". International New York Times. March 18, 2014. Archived from the original on May 19, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Putin apologist lauds the ‘good Hitler’". Democracy Digest. May 12, 2014. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Петербургские депутаты просят привлечь Миграняна за экстремизм [Saint Petersburg deputies want to charge Mihranian with extremism]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). April 4, 2014. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Nikola Krastev (February 15, 2009). "In The Heart Of New York, Russia's 'Soft Power' Arm Gaining Momentum". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ В Вашингтоне политологи обсудили ситуацию в Северной Африке [In Washington politologists have discussed situation regarding North Africa] (in Russian). Channel One Russia. June 29, 2011. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ Anna Nazaryan (August 4, 2013). "Andranik Mihranyan: Russia is Armenia’s only strategic partner". Radiolur (Public Radio of Armenia). Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.

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