Ashot Navasardyan

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Ashot Navasardyan

Ashot Tsolaki Navasardyan (Armenian: Աշոտ Ցոլակի Նավասարդյան; March 28, 1950 – November 3, 1997) was an Armenian politician and military commander who founded the Republican Party of Armenia.[1]

Navasardyan was born in Yerevan and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University. From 1968 to 1990, he was a member of the underground National Unity Party and its successor, the Union for National Self-Determination, which sought to achieve Armenia's secession from the Soviet Union. He was imprisoned several times by the Soviet authorities for his dissident activities, serving a total of 12 years in prisons.

Navasardyan was an advocate of the ideas of the Armenian military leader and nationalist thinker

Supreme Soviet of Armenia in the 1990 elections and to the National Assembly of Armenia in the 1995 parliamentary elections
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Navasardyan died from a heart attack on November 3, 1997. He is buried at Yerablur military cemetery.

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