Andranik Migranyan

Andranik Migranyan (Armenian: Անդրանիկ Միհրանյան; Russian: Андраник Мигранян; born 10 February 1949 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian-born Russian politologist, who works as a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.[1][2][3][4]

Andranik Migranyan (2021)

Academy

He holds a PhD degree (1978) from the Institute of International Labor Movement, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Andranik Migranyan has been a visiting fellow at Harriman Institute, Columbia University; San Diego State University. He is an author of a number of articles, books, hundreds of publications.

Advisor

During the 1990s he was an advisor to Boris Yeltsin.[5]

From 1993 till 2000 he was a Member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation.

In 1994 served as Chief Advisor to the Committee on CIS Problems in the Russian Parliament (Duma).

From 2008 to 2015 he was the director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York, founded in 2007.[6]

Views

In 2011, during the Libyan Civil War he said that there is a chance that Muammar Gaddafi will be imprisoned rather than sent out of the country like it happened in Egypt.[7]

In 2013 he said that he admires Raffi Hovannisian but doesn't think he will make a good politician.[8]

In 2014, he argued with Andrey Zubov about the role of Hitler and the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and in an Izvestia article he stated that there was a difference between Hitler before 1939 and Hitler after 1939, and that Hitler without a single drop of blood has united Germany with Austria, and Sudetenland and Memel to Germany, something what Otto von Bismarck was unable to do.[9][10][11]

In 2018, he called hundred thousands of protesters participating in Armenian Velvet Revolution "dirt" (охлосом, чернью, и мразью). [12]

References

  1. "Sanctions Will Have No Effect on Russia". International New York Times. March 18, 2014. Archived from the original on May 19, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  2. "Putin apologist lauds the 'good Hitler'". Democracy Digest. May 12, 2014. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  3. Петербургские депутаты просят привлечь Миграняна за экстремизм [Saint Petersburg deputies want to charge Mihranian with extremism]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). April 4, 2014. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2014.
  4. Saunders, Robert A.; Strukov, Vlad (2010-05-13). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. Scarecrow Press. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-8108-7460-2.
  5. Nikola Krastev (February 15, 2009). "In The Heart Of New York, Russia's 'Soft Power' Arm Gaining Momentum". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  6. ""Миссия закончена. Ситуация с правами человека в США стала лучше"".
  7. В Вашингтоне политологи обсудили ситуацию в Северной Африке [In Washington politologists have discussed situation regarding North Africa] (in Russian). Channel One Russia. June 29, 2011. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  8. Anna Nazaryan (August 4, 2013). "Andranik Mihranyan: Russia is Armenia's only strategic partner". Radiolur. Public Radio of Armenia. Archived from the original on May 18, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  9. "Наши Передоновы". 3 April 2014.
  10. Cohen, Richard (2014-04-21). "Richard Cohen: A Putin affiliate evokes Hitler. The West should be worried". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  11. "The Kremlin, Crimea, And 'The Good Hitler'". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  12. Կրեմլի ագիտատորներից համարվող քաղաքագետը՝ Երևանում տեղի ունեցող ցույցերի մասին, retrieved 2022-02-23


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