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Article: Obituary: Karen Demirchian
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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KILLED IN the shooting spree in parliament that decimated the
Armenian leadership, Karen Demirchian was still re-establishing
himself as a political force in the former Soviet republic a decade
after he had been forced to quit as Communist Party boss.
In his democratic reincarnation, Demirchian was not quite as
successful as his erstwhile Caucasian Communist Party colleagues of
the 1970s and 1980s Eduard Shevardnadze and Heidar Aliev. While
Shevardnadze made a dramatic return to power in Georgia as president,
closely followed by Aliev in Azerbaijan, Demirchian's re-emergence on
to the Armenian political stage in 1998 led him only as far as
speaker of parliament.
Nevertheless, the sight of ...
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