Ashot Shamkhali Bleyan (in

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Աշոտ Բլեյան, born in

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on 4 September 1955), is an Armenian politician, educator, government minister and school master. Bleyan graduated from

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as a physicist. Together with Ashot Dabaghyan and Ashot Manucharyan, he co-founded School No. 183 now known as Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex in Yerevan, Armenia. Bleyan became the director of the school in 1989. After serving as vice president in the Yerevan Municipality's Executive Committee, he was elected to the Armenian Parliament in 1990. He was appointed Armenian Education Minister serving 1994 to 1995 in the government headed by Prime Minister

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. He became Vice Minister for the Ministry of Education and Science from 1995 to 1996. Between 1994 and 2002, he served as president of the New Path (in Armenian «Նոր ուղի») political party. In 1998 he was a candidate to the Armenian presidential elections gaining just 1,559 votes (or 0.1% of the total votes). He was imprisoned in 1999 (the charges were: civil and criminal offences, including embezzlement). His lawyer complained to the European Parliament that he has been beaten and placed in solitary confinement.European Parliament: Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission
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External links

Ashod Bleyan page on Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex website
1955 births Living people Politicians from Yerevan Education ministers of Armenia {{Armenia-politician-stub