Karen Demirchyan
1st
Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia (1975-1988). He was called
Karen the Builder for his activities in house building and construction
of metropolitan railway in Yerevan. Demirchyan resigned in 1988 amidst
the general discontent of the Armenians with the weak-willed policy
of Communist leaders in the Karabakh conflict. He returned into politics
in 1998 to take part in the presidential elections, then he was elected
Parliament Speaker and formed an alliance with Vazgen Sarkissian. In
October 1999, he was slain during the terrorist attack in the Parliament
building in Yerevan.
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