KOCHARIAN PICKS UP NEW SPOKESMAN

ArmenPress
Feb 28 2005

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS: President Kocharian picked up a
26 year-old Viktor Soghomonyan to replace his former spokesman Ashot
Kocharian appointed ambassador to India. Viktor Soghomonyan was born
in 1979 in Yerevan. He graduated the Department of Russian language
and Literature at Yerevan State University in 2001 and continued his
post-graduate education at the Institute of Literature, an affiliation
of the National Academy of Sciences.

He was engaged in TV reporting since 1997. From 2002 to 2003 he taught
at Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan. Later he worked as chief
of staff of parliament chairman. Viktor Soghomonyan is single.