HASMIK POGHOSIAN APPOINTED RA MINISTER OF CULTURE AND YOUTH ISSUES

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 23 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. By RA President Robert
Kocharian’s May 22 decree, Gevorg Gevorgian was discharged the post
of the RA Minister of Culture and Youth Issues. As Noyan Tapan was
informed by the RA President’s Press Office, by another decree,
Hasmik Poghosian was appointed on that post. Hasmik Poghosian was
born in 1960 in Yerevan. She left the Pushkin School in 1977. She
left the Sayat-Nova Music School with gold medal in 1974.

She studied at the Biology Department of the Yerevan State University
in 1977-1982, was offered graduade studentship in 1982-1985. She worked
as a Biology teacher at the Yerevan No182 school in 1985-1993. She
has worked since 1986 up today at the Armenian Union of Cultural
Cooperation with Foreign Countries as an Assistant, Senior Assistant,
Department Head, Responsible Secretray, Union Chairman’s First
Deputy. She was elected the Union Counci Chairwoman in 2005. She is
married, has two sons. She is non-partizan.