PRESIDENT SARGSYAN APPOINTS NEW PRESS SECRETARY
NEWS | 18.04.13 | 12:09
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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has signed a decree today relieving
Armen Arzumanyan of his duties as presidential press secretary.
By another decree Sargsyan appointed Arman Saghatelyan as Arzumanyan’s
successor, reports the official website of the president.
Saghatelyan, 37, served within the Defense Ministry’s Information
and Propaganda Department in 1997-1999 and then from 2000 to 2010
worked as civil specialist on PR and Propaganda issues and as anchor
for the “Zinuzh” (Armed Forces) TV program. He was awarded a Garegin
Nzhdeh Medal.
For many, however, Saghatelyan is also known as co-founder and from
1993 to 1997 captain of the KVN (Club of the Funny and Inventive) Team
“Novye Armyane” (“New Armenians), which successfully performed for
several years in this Russian humor TV show and competition popular
in former Soviet republics.
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