According to the decree of the RA President Serzh Sargsyan, Yuri Vardanyan was released from the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Georgia.

By another presidential decree, Ruben Sadoyan was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Georgia (residence: Tbilisi).

To remind, for a long time it was rumored that Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute, Sergey Minasyan, would be appointed ambassador, but recently the Georgian public TV reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia did not give credentials to the newly appointed ambassador by RA. The public television company contacted the foreign ministry to verify the information. “Sergey Minasyan is the deputy director of the Caucasus Institute. 

Minasyan published several articles in which “Russia’s involvement was required to solve the Javakhk issue”, says the article of Moambe, the public television station of Georgia, which does not correspond to reality.

It should be noted that Ruben Sadoyan, a former member of the National Assembly, is a former Minister of Transport and Communications Gagik Beglaryan is the protégé.

According to the circulating news, Gagik Beglaryan, who is in a patron-godson relationship with Sadoyan, who has quite close relations with the governing circles of Georgia, actively lobbied for the confirmation of his candidacy.

Those carps were especially strengthened during the tenure of minister Gagik Beglaryan. According to our information, Beglaryan has very warm relations, especially with the current Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili. The latter, as the press wrote, attended the wedding of Gagik Beglaryan’s son, Hrant Beglaryan, together with several ministers of the Georgian government in September of last year.

It should also be noted that the position of ambassador, especially in Georgia, where there are many sensitive issues related to RA and the local Armenian community, also means a certain active public activity. And Ruben Sadoyan, who was elected to the National Assembly twice in a row (2007-2017), was one of the most silent deputies.

Let’s also remind that according to press publications, Sadoyan once had large debts to Armenian banks. In 2015, the newspaper “Chorrord Samvishkhanutyun” made a publication, according to which the deputy of the National Assembly (at that time he was still a deputy) Ruben Sadoyan owed millions of debts to Armenian banks.

According to the press release, the banks, not being able to receive their money, sued the MP. At that time, Judge Gagik Khandanyan of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of RA was in the process of the lawsuit of “Ameria” bank against the National Assembly deputy.

Biography of Ruben Sadoyan.

He was born in 1968. on June 22 in Yerevan.

1989 graduated from Yerevan Institute of National Economy. Financier-economist.

1989-1990 worked in “Haybakalea” enterprise as an accountant, in 1990-1994 – in the RA State Tax Inspectorate, then in the operational department of the inspectorate – state tax inspector, in 1994-1996 – in “Vahuni” LLC – director, in 1996-2000 – in “Royal Crystal” LLC – director, in 2000-2001 – RA State Chief Tax Inspector of the Department of Analysis and Planning of Tax Revenues of the Tax Inspection of the Ministry of Revenue, 2002: Director at the “Arshakun” Branch of “Yerevan Electric Grid” CJSC, 2002-2003: Director at the “Echmiadzin Realization-Operation” Branch, 2003-2004: Deputy Director of “Kentron-Kanachapatum” CJSC.

2007-2012: Deputy of the National Assembly (constituency No. 9). Member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly.

2012 On May 6, he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly from constituency No. 9.

Married, has two children.