Suren Gazaryan

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Suren Gazaryan (born Suren Vladimirovich Gazaryan, Russian: Сурен Владимирович Газарян) (born 8 July 1974) is a Russian zoologist, dissident, public figure, and former member of The Environmental Watch on North Caucasus.^[1] He is a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014.^[2][3][4]

Life

Gazaryan was born on 8 July 1974 in Krasnodar. In 1996, he graduated from Kuban State University, and in 2001 he completed postgraduate studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.^[5] In 2001, he was also elected chairman of the commission for the protection of caves of the Russian Union of Cavers.^[6]

In 2014, he was granted asylum in Estonia.^[7]

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