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Movses Hakobyan

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Movses Hakobyan
Մովսես Հակոբյան
Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces
In office
3 October 2016 – 24 May 2018
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Preceded byYuri Khachaturov
Succeeded byArtak Davtyan
Deputy Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces
In office
15 June 2015 – 3 October 2016
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Preceded byLevon Mnatsakanyan
Succeeded byHaykaz Bagmanyan
Minister of Defence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
In office
11 May 2007 – 15 June 2015
PresidentArkadi Ghukasyan
Bako Sahakyan
Preceded bySeyran Ohanyan
Succeeded byLevon Mnatsakanyan
Personal details
Born (1965-02-04) 4 February 1965 (age 59)
Chartar, Nagorno Karabakh, Soviet Union
Awardssee below
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union (1982-1992)
 Republic of Artsakh (1992-2015)
 Armenia (2015-present)
Branch/service Soviet Army
Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army
Armed Forces of Armenia
Years of service1982 - present
RankColonel-General
Battles/warsSoviet–Afghan War
First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Movses Hranti Hakobyan (Armenian: Մովսես Հրանտի Հակոբյան; born 4 February 1965) is a former senior Armenian military official and the former commander of NKR Defense Army and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces.[1] From 19 November 2018 until his resignation on 18 November 2020, Hakobyan served as the Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces.[2][3]

Biography

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Hakobyan was born in the town of Chartar in the Martuni region of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. He graduated from the secondary school of Chartar in 1982 and entered the Alma-Ata Army Command College in the same year. From 1986 to 1987, he served in the 553rd Motorized Rifle Regiment, based in the Transcaucasian Military District, as an infantry platoon commander. Hakobyan then served in the Soviet armed forces stationed in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War as deputy commander of a rifle company. In 1988, he returned to the Transcaucasian Military District to serve as company commander with the 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment, stationed in Stepanakert. After the regiment was pulled out from Stepanakert in March 1992, Hakobyan joined the Nagorno Karabakh Self-Defense Forces.

During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War he participated in military operations in Martuni, Askeran, Martakert, Aghdam and was wounded at least three times. Hakobyan was the commander of the battalion of his native village Chartar from July–September 1992. Afterward he served as deputy commander, then the commander, of Shushi defense district from 1992 to 1993. From September to December 1993, he commanded the defense of Monteaberd (Martuni). Subsequently and until 1998, he was commander of the 2nd Defense District of Martuni and from 1998 to 1999 of 4th Defense District of Askeran. From 1999 to 2001, Hakobyan was deputy commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, in charge of combat readiness.

Following his graduation from Russia's Academy of the General Staff, on 24 July 2002, Hakobyan was appointed Adviser to the Defense Minister of Armenia, and in July 2003, as first deputy commander and chief of staff of the NKR Defense Army. Hakobyan became the Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh on 11 May 2007 by decree of the President of Nagorno-Karabakh Arkadi Ghukasyan, succeeding Seyran Ohanyan.

In June 2015, Hakobyan was appointed deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia. Hakobyan was appointed Chief of the General Staff on 3 October 2016. He was dismissed from this post by newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on 24 May 2018 and appointed Head of the Military Control Service of the Armenian Ministry of Defense (chief military inspector).[4][5] Hakobyan was dismissed from his post as chief military inspector on 19 November 2019 but later reappointed to the same post.[6]

On 18 November 2020, during the political crisis created by the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, he submitted his resignation from the post of Head of the Military Control Service of the Armenian Ministry of Defense.[3] Hakobyan gave a press conference following his resignation where he alleged a number of failures by Nikol Pashinyan's government in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[7] Hakobyan's press conference became the subject of investigation by the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia.[7][8] On 3 May 2021, Hakobyan was charged with revealing state secrets and summoned by Armenia's National Security Service for questioning.[9]

Personal life

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Hakobyan is married and has two children. His nephew, Armen Grigoryan, has served as the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia since 17 May 2018.[10]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Karabakh Armenian commander reports military buildup". Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Artak Davtyan appointed Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces | Public Radio of Armenia". armradio.am. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b Top military official resigns in Armenia PanARMENIAN.Net, 18 November 2020
  4. ^ Ghazanchyan, Siranush (24 May 2018). "Army Chief Movses Hakobyan to be dismissed". Public Radio of Armenia. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  5. ^ Sirekanyan, Tigran (24 May 2018). "Movses Hakobyan appointed chief military inspector". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  6. ^ Mkrtchyan, Marianna (18 November 2019). "Arminfo: Pashinyan dismissed Movses Hakobyan and his first deputy". arminfo.info. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  7. ^ a b "Armenian PM dismisses ex-military inspector's criticism of mistakes that led to defeat in Karabakh". interfax.com. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  8. ^ "Armenia Prosecutor General's Office: Movses Hakobyan press conference video is sent to Special Investigation Service". news.am. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  9. ^ Ghukasyan, Seda (3 May 2021). "Former Armenian Military Chief Charged with Revealing State Secrets". Hetq.am. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  10. ^ "Գրիգորյան Արմենը չափահաս մարդ է, ո՛չ ես, ո՛չ ինքը միմյանց որոշումների վրա չենք ազդում. Մովսես Հակոբյան. ՏԵՍԱՆՅՈՒԹ" [Movses Hakobyan: Grigoryan Armen is an adult, neither I, nor he influence each other's decisions. VIDEO]. factor.am (in Armenian). 19 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
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