Education
1966 - 1970: Postgraduate Student. Institute of Philosophy and Law of Academy of Sciences Armenia.
1957 - 1961: Student, Azerbaijan State Institute of Pedagogic.

Professional Experience
2003 - to present:Head of Chair of Theoretical Philosophy and Logic, Yerevan State University,
2000 - to present: Chief Consultant, Analytic of Center of Regional Integration and Conflict Resolution
1992 - 2003: Head of Department of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences
1987 - to present: Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences
1983 - 1987: Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences
1971 - 1982: Research worker of Institute of Philosophy and Law of Academy of Sciences of RA
1962 - 1965: Pressman (The Armenian Newspaper "Communist", Baku)

Degrees
Since 1985: Doctor of Philosophy Sciences
Doctoral Thesis Entitled “Methodological principles of objectivity of the Scientific knowledge and the Unity of Sciences”

Publications and Conference Participation
Author of more than 60 scientific articles and books, including:
- The problem of growth of scientific knowledge. 1973, Yerevan (in Russian).
- The methodological principles of objectivity of scientific knowledge and unity of the Science. 1984, Yerevan (in Russian).
- Karabagh Conflict. Consensus. Yerevan, 1977 (in Armenian, Russian and English).
- Karabagh Conflict: Aspects of Legal Approach. Yerevan, 1977 (in Russian).
- Karabagh Problem in Keywords. Yerevan, 1999 (in English).
- Karabagh Problem in the Keywords and Selected Themes. Yerevan, 2003 (in Russian).
- The Poverty Reduction Strategic Program: Methodological Aspects. Yerevan, 2002 (in Armenian).
- The Karabakh Struggle in the Mirror of Political Consciousness of Armenians. Yerevan, 2003 (in Armenian).
Lectures in more then 16 international conferences, including 6 rounds of Russian-American Dartmut Conference on Karabakh conflict regulation, Moscow, Russia.

Other Activities
1991: Co-founder of NGO “Against the Violation of Law”
1999: Participated in Parliamentary elections as a Candidate
2002: Director of “Karabach Conflict in Keywords” grant project, implemented with IREX
2003: “Poverty Reduction Strategic Programm” chief of methodologic group

Languages
Fluent in Armenian and Russian, English (satisfactory)

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