Ashot Manucharyan (, born 1954 in

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) is an

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n educator,

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politician, and one of the founding members of the Karabakh Committee. After the independence of Armenia from the

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in 1991, he served as Minister of Internal Affairs from 1991 to 1992 and as

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's National Security Adviser until 1993. Together with Ashot Dabaghyan and

Ashot Bleyan Ashot Shamkhali Bleyan (in Armenian Աշոտ Բլեյան, born in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic on 4 September 1955), is an Armenian politician, educator, government minister and school master. Bleyan graduated from Yerevan State U ...

, Manucharyan co-founded School No. 183, later known as the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex, which stresses a humanistic approach to education.

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1954 births Living people Politicians from Yerevan Interior ministers of Armenia Armenian activists Armenian socialists Members of the Karabakh Committee {{Armenia-politician-stub