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Tigran Karapetyan | |
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Chairman of the People's Party | |
In office 1995 – 21 October 2021 | |
Preceded by | position established |
Succeeded by | vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union | 16 May 1945
Died | 21 October 2021 Yerevan, Armenia | (aged 76)
Political party | People's Party |
Tigran Karapeti Karapetyan ( Armenian: Տիգրան Կարապետի Կարապետյան; 16 May 1945 – 21 October 2021 [1]) was an Armenian politician and the chairman of the People's Party. He was also the owner of a private television company named ALM, which operated from 2002 to 2011. [2]
Karapetyan was the founder of a small, populist political party which he founded after making his fortune in Russia. He appeared on his television station on a daily basis and his "folksy demeanour" was popular with working class and rural Armenians. [3]
Tigran Karapetyan lost multiple elections and announced his "disappointment of people" in an incident in 2011 at Yerevan. [4] He was popular for his charities to people of vulnerable groups. He was the author of a popular song "flowers" (ծաղիկներ), which he sang live on ALM. [5]
He died on 21 October 2021, at the age of 76, from COVID-19 in Yerevan, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia. [6]