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	Karen Demirchyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karen Demirchyan (Armenian Կարեն Դեմիրճյան; Russian Карен Серобович Демирчян, Karen Serobovich Demirchyan) (April 17, 1932, Yerevan—October 27, 1999, Yerevan) was an Armenian (and Soviet Union) communist and later independent politician, Armenian Communist Party first secretary from 1974 to 1988.
		Demirchyan was elected first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party in November 1974, effectively the boss of Soviet Armenia.
		However, Demirchyan failed to quell popular demonstrations in Armenia calling for Nagorno-Karabakh to be transferred to Armenian jurisdiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karen_Demirchyan (490 words)

	Armenian presidential elections 1998 - Candidate to Armenian Presidency Karen Demirchyan Stands Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the second round, Demirchyan intends to act in the framework of his electoral platform and is prepared to cooperate with all wishing to do so and who shares positions of his electoral platform.
		Demirchyan made a number of condition stipulating his participation in TV debates versus the other presidential candidate, Robert Kocheryan.
		In particular, Demirchyan insists that those to blame for violations in the first round of the elections shall be punished.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/election98/98032401.htm (273 words)

	RUSNET :: Armenia poll race reaches climax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mr Demirchyan has declined to take part in a Monday evening TV debate, saying that journalists chosen to ask the candidates questions were biased against him.
		His rival is the son of former parliament speaker Karen Demirchyan - one of eight people killed in a 1999 parliamentary massacre.
		Mr Demirchyan won 27.7% of the vote on an anti-corruption platform, capitalising on the popularity of his father, a Soviet-era Communist party boss who lost to Mr Kocharyan in the 1998 election.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/03/04/print/politics01.shtml (347 words)

	Presidential Elections: Candidates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan was born on April 17, 1932, in Yerevan.
		From 1966 to 1972, Karen Demirchyan was the Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Yerevan, later the Second Secretary.
		Karen Demirchyan is not a member of any political party.
	cec.freenet.am /Candidates/KarenDemirchyan.html (218 words)

	Karen Demirchyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was called Karen the Builder for his activities in house building and construction of metropolitan railway in Yerevan.
		Demirchyan resigned in 1988 amidst the general discontent of the Armenians with the weak-willed policy of Communist leaders in the Karabakh conflict.
		He returned into politics in 1998 to take part in the presidential elections, then he was elected Parliament Speaker and formed an alliance with Vazgen Sarkissian.
	www.armenianhistory.info /demirchyan.htm (92 words)

	Ukrainian vote shows yearnings for past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan, the Communist boss in Armenia from 1974 to 1988, has exploited the popular belief that the country was more secure and prosperous in the Soviet period.
		Demirchyan, who has run an industrial plant in Armenia for most of the past decade, finished second in the first round of voting earlier this month with 31 per cent, compared with 39 per cent for Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan.
		Demirchyan says he is a democratic reformer and is not running as a Communist candidate, but he has called for a slower approach to market reforms.
	plato.acadiau.ca /courses/pols/Grieve/3593/CIS/ukrainevoteMar98.html (953 words)

	Armenian News - KAREN DEMIRCHYAN WOULD BE 74 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today Karen Demirchyan would be 74 years old.
		Karen Demirchyan’s relatives consider it meaningless to speak about the October 27 events and their consequences under the present authorities and prefer to suffer in silence.
		Regardless of the change of the political situation, Karen Demirchyan and Fadey Sargsyan were bonded with joint work and friendship of many years.
	www.armtown.com /news/en/a1p/20060417/37857 (824 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Demirchyan’s campaign team also made allegations about irregularities on the voter registers (the inclusion of dead people in the lists) and the likelihood that refugees would vote even though they were legally proscribed from doing so.
		Demirchyan’s candidacy had not been proposed by any party this meant that, uniquely, he was only entitled to be represented by chosen proxies and/or observers.
		In fact, the declaration he issued along with four other candidates (Paruyr-Hayrikyan, an imprisoned dissident during Demirchyan's rule of Armenia, later retracted his support claiming that Mr Demirchyan had refused to support an investigation of election abuses by supporters of any candidate) was released an hour before polls closed on Monday.
	cec.freenet.am /am/Reports/25-Mar-1.txt (2447 words)

	Hetq Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan’s years in office remind people 45 and older of more prosperous times.
		Stepan Demirchyan looks like his father; in his way of speaking and his behavior, he resembles Karen Demirchyan more and more each day day.
		Nevertheless, according to the polls, Stepan Demirchyan is in second place, and Artashes Geghamyan is in third.
	www.hetq.am /eng/society/h-0203-matreshka.html (1484 words)

	Armenian News - WHO IS DISTORTING, GEGHAMYAN OR DEMIRCHYAN? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan offered the leader of the National Unity to become the head of his electoral campaign headquarters.
		Stepan Demirchyan, however, did not answer any questions, saying that he closed this topic by his statement and there would be no debates.
		Stepan Demirchyan, the leader of Ardarutiun Alliance, is guided by this principle when he speaks about the leap of the Orinats Yerkir Party from the coalition to the opposition.
	www.armtown.com /news/en/lra/20060526/3173 (1054 words)

	ArmeniaNow.com - Independent Journalism From Today`s Armenia
		Stepan Demirchyan got enough votes Wednesday to force a runoff, but it was his slain father, Karen, whose reputation earned them.
		In the few words he managed for Thursday's rally, Demirchyan promised that his first order of business if elected President would be to punish those who tried to steal the election from him.
		In Armenia's last Presidential election in 1998, it was Karen Demirchyan and Kocharyan in a hotly contested runoff.
	armenianow.com /archive/2004/2003/february21/outsideeye/index.htm (1375 words)

	Armenia HISTORY
		The main contenders were Kocharian, Vazgen Manukyan (who had run against Ter-Petrosyan in 1996 and was head of the National Democratic Union), and Karen Demirchyan (head of the Armenian Communist Party from 1974 to 1988).
		Kocharian took 48.3% of the first-round vote, with Stepan Demirchyan—son of Karen Demirchyan, the former parliamentary speaker assassinated in 1999—taking 27.4% of the vote.
		The opposition called the election fraudulent and said it would not recognize the vote, and observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) declared the election "flawed." Stuffing of ballot boxes allegedly took place, although many ballots were cast in transparent boxes, in an attempt to have a fair vote.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Europe/Armenia-HISTORY.html (1949 words)

	Armenian presidential elections 1998 - British Helsinki Human Rights Group Report on the Second Round (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the altercation between the Demirchyan proxies and the HQ representative progressed, the chairman of the electoral commission summoned a policeman who spoke to the Demirchyan representative who voted and then left.
		The excitable claims by the Demirchyan representatives were confused by the fact that more of them testified to what had happened than could have been present at the time and their accounts became more inflamed as they recited them.
		The two Demirchyan proxies in the station dismissed the allegations as did Kocharyan's _ both sides argued in a good natured way that the accuser had been a little odd since having an accident a few years before and she should not be held responsible for her allegations.
	asbarez.com /aol/election98/98040312.htm (1989 words)

	Hetq Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Demirchyan’s team is preparing to present to the court ballot-papers marked for Kocharyan that were circulated before the election.
		In this case, too, I am convinced that Stepan Demirchyan’s suit will be dismissed, notwithstanding that there are well-grounded arguments for declaring the results of the election invalid.
		If it hadn’t been for the terrorist act of October 27, 1999, when Speaker of the Parliament Karen Demirchyan and Prime Minister Vazgen Sargissyan were assassinated, Robert Kocharyan would not have remained in power.
	www.hetq.am /eng/politics/h-0403-sd.html (1333 words)

	Life in Armenia
		I have to say that most of what Demirchyan is proposing, reflects much of what I�ve been writing in my logs and working towards since I've been living here.
		I personally don�t know Demirchyan, but if modern science is correct in their findings with regards to genes and their determining who someone is, then the son of Karen Demirchyan just may have what it will take to be a good president.
		The only thing that concerns me with Demirchyan�s �Pre-electoral basic provisions� is that there are things in it that Kocharian had promised to deliver before he was elected back in 1998 and to this day has not made good on what he said he would do.
	www.cilicia.com /2003/02/ive-posted-stepan-demirchyans-pre.html (417 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 57, 98-03-24
		Former Armenian Communist Party First Secretary Karen Demirchyan told journalists in Yerevan on 23 March that he would have been elected president with 53.3 percent support in the first round of voting if the 16 March poll had been free and fair, Interfax reported.
		Demirchyan claimed that supporters of Prime Minister and acting President Kocharyan are exerting "enormous pressure" on his campaign supporters.
		Kocharyan said it is "strange" that Demirchyan had not publicly voiced his objections to the current law before the first round of voting.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/balkans/rferl/1998/98-03-24.rferl.html (2581 words)

	Armenian ex-communist leader highlights economy as main issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan, have pledged to cooperate with President
		The bloc is not temporary but has far-reaching aims, the PPA chairman, Karen Demirchyan, said.
		Demirchyan noted that foreign policy should be "balanced and
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/election/tajikistan/bba52099.html (510 words)

	Shooting in the Armenian Parliament
		The terrorists, Nairi and Karen Hunanyan, Edward Grigoryan, Vram Galstyan, Derenik Bejanyan, are kept in the isolation wards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
		According to a psychologist, it’s improbable that the terror act in the National Assembly was done in a state of paroxysm.
		Derenik Bejanyan is a refugee, he has moved to Amenia from the town of Gandzak (Kirovabad.) For the past few years, he has been living in Yerevan –; in the dormitory of the RA Ministry of education and science, located in Charbakh.
	www.internews.am /projects/archive/events/index.htm (4281 words)

	Felist.Com : Arminfo news agency
		But even if the votes collected by the NDU leader were more, it is quite natural that they would be maximally polarized as "people are eager to change the power that is why they gave their votes to the presidential candidate from the opposition around whom a great number of politologists have consolidated," Manoukyan stressed.
		According to him, during the meeting Stepan Demirchyan informed the heads of the OSCE and PACE monitoring groups, Peter Eicker and Lord Russell Johnston of the violations of the Electoral Code of Armenia registered by his pre-electoral staff.
		In particular, in the town of Hrazdan a person representing Demirchyan was detained at the moment when he tried to stop the attempt of bribery of electors by the head of the personnel of the "Mika Cement" CJSC.
	felist.com /archive/media.arminfo/200303/06175928.html (8483 words)

	2006 - the year of new politics - 168 Hours Online
		Indeed, in this prospect Stepan Demirchyan will not have as many votes as he had during the 2002 elections because the votes will also split in the opposition political field.
		But everybody understands that there is the need to give a few seats for the APP in the parliament for the sake of democracy.
		Strong sides: The rating of the APP since Karen Demirchyan, opposition party, certain sustainable electorate.
	www.168.am /en/articles/1326 (1000 words)

	Widow Of Karen Demirchyan Against Privatization - HyeForum
		Widow of Karen Demirchyan Rima Demirchyan is against privatization of K.Demirchyan SCC.
		Talking to ARMINFO, she stated that SCC is a facility symbolizing revival of Armenia's spirit as counterbalance to the Memorial for the Victims of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
		Besides, Rima Demirchyan stated that construction of the complex cost 40 mln Soviet rubles to the country, which is equal to $40 mln, so its privatization for $6 mln is illegal.
	hyeforum.com /index.php?act=findpost&pid=152075 (2793 words)

	Hughes Hubbard and Reed : Advisories & Alerts
		The case can be traced to the assassination in October 1999 of Karen Demirchyan, then leader of the opposition Peoples Party of Armenia and one of several victims of a massacre on the parliament floor.
		After Demirchyan’s death, Karapetyan became an even more vocal critic of President Robert Kocharyan’s government, which she accused of plotting the murders of Demirchyan and the other slain opposition parliament members.
		Karapetyan was interrogated, threatened, and both verbally and physically abused by the officials from the military prosecutor’s office.
	www.hugheshubbard.com /news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=1252 (447 words)

	Speech of president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan at the ceremony of the commemoration of the deceased.
		The bright memory of Vazgen Sargsyan, Karen Demirchyan, Yuri Bakhshyan, Ruben Miroyan, Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Mikael Kotanyan, Leonard Petrosyan will live forever.
		Vazgen Sargsyan left an ineffaceable mark on the road of the establishment and enforcement of the power of the country.
		We are bidding farewell to Karen Demirchyan – one of the wisest political leaders, whose life was an example of serving the state interests and devotion to the nation.
	www.internews.am /projects/archive/events/english/kocharyan-pokh.htm (562 words)

	French police expel African migrants from church Tough guy Japan politico looking for 'real men' Armenians vote for new ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karen Demirchyan, Armenia's Soviet-era Communist leader, led in most opinion polls before the vote, ahead of Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, the acting president, and former prime minister Vazgen Manukyan.
		Demirchyan, 65, was Armenia's Communist leader in the 1970s and 1980s but has been out of politics for a decade.
		He has now recast himself as a democrat and free-marketeer and is apparently benefiting from nostalgia for what some regard as better and easier times in Soviet days.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=6427 (2251 words)

	tribuneindia... World
		First reports had said Mr Sarkissian, 40 and Mr Demirchyan, 67, had survived, and were being treated in hospital.
		Also killed in the spectacular attack — which came during a live television broadcast from the Parliament — were Deputy Speaker Yuri Bakshyan, government Minister Leonard Petrosyan and MP Mikael Kotanyan, it was stated.
		His biggest success was “Joy to The World”, recorded by the band Three Dog Night, which held the number one slot on the hit charts for six weeks running in 1971.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct28/world.htm (4275 words)

	“27” will be revealed sooner or later - 168 Hours Online
		On October 27, all oppositionists of Armenia visited the Pantheon of Armenia to pay tribute to former Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Karen Demirchyan, who was one of the victims of the atrocities at the parliament on October 27, 1999.
		The verdict didn’t reveal the people responsible for the crime; on the contrary, it made them more suspicious,” said Stepan Demirchyan, son of Karen Demirchyan.
		Stepan Demirchyan believes that the truth will be revealed sooner or later.
	www.168.am /en/articles/3440 (524 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 65, 98-04-03
		Defeated Armenian presidential candidate Karen Demirchyan has claimed that the 30 March runoff poll was marred by "numerous instances of fraud, falsification, intimidation, and vote-buying," RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported on 2 April.
		In a statement released by the official news agency Armenpress, Demirchyan said the preliminary final results released by the Central Electoral Commission do not reflect the real outcome of the vote.
		Demirchyan said the poll results had dealt a blow to people's faith in democracy, but he cautioned against mass protests, which, he said, could lead to a split in society.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/balkans/rferl/1998/98-04-03.rferl.html (2661 words)

	World Briefs I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voters were choosing between two men who emerged from a 12-candidate field in the election's first round: Prime Minister Robert Kocharian, who has served as caretaker president since last March, and Karen Demirchyan, a former Communist Party first secretary who governed Armenia when it was a Soviet republic.
		Workers at Demirchyan campaign headquarters, who predicted a close finish, said they were receiving complaints from around the country of poll watchers being ejected from precincts and of efforts to stuff ballot boxes.
		Kocharian campaign officials, who claim their candidate will win by at least seven percentage points, said that Demirchyan was trying to disqualify the outcome in advance.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N15/ebriefs1.15w.html (607 words)

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