Artur Gagiki Vanetsyan (, born 8 December 1979) is an

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n politician who served as the director of the National Security Service of Armenia (2018–2019), president of

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(2018–2019), and is the founder and chairman of the

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Homeland Party.

Political career

On November 11, after the Armenian defeat on the

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, he was arrested among other opposition leaders on charges of "illegal conduction of rallies". On November 13, they were freed after a Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction deemed their arrests unlawful. On November 14, he was detained again, this time by the National Security Service (which he headed between 2018 and 2019) on the suspicion of usurping power and preparing the assassination of Prime Minister

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. On November 15, he was freed again after the court declared the detention as unlawful. Artur Vanetsyan was nominated to lead the

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in the

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s. On 21 June 2022, Vanetsyan announced that he was resigning as a member of parliament and withdrawing the Homeland Party from the I Have Honor alliance.

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