Andranik Migranyan (; ; born 10 February 1949 in

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, Armenia) is an Armenian-born Russian political scientist, who works as a professor at the

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Academy

He holds a PhD degree (1978) from the 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. He is an author of a number of articles, books, hundreds of publications.

Advisor

During the 1990s he was an advisor to

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. From 1993 till 2000 he 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). From 2008 to 2015 he was the director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York, founded in 2007.

Views

In 2011, during the

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he said that there was a chance that

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will be imprisoned rather than sent out of the country like it happened in

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. In 2014, he argued with

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about the role of Hitler and the

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, and in an

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article he stated that there was a difference between Hitler before 1939 and Hitler after 1939, and that Hitler without a single drop of blood has united Germany with Austria, and

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and Memel to Germany, something what

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was unable to do. Migranyan has frequently commented on politics in

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. In 2013, he said that he admires

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, but disagreed that he would make a good politician. He is also a vocal critic of Armenian Prime Minister

Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current Prime Minister of Armenia, prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in ...

. During the

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, he strongly condemned Pashinyan and his supporters as "dirt" (охлосом, чернью, и мразью).

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* * * * * 1949 births Living people Russian political scientists Armenian political scientists Russian people of Armenian descent Academic staff of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation {{Armenia-bio-stub