SAMVEL FARMANIAN APPOINTED PRESS SECRETARY OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

ARKA
May 21, 2008

YEREVAN, May 21. /ARKA/. Samvel Farmanian has been appointed Press
Secretary of Armenian President. Under an earlier presidential decree,
Victor Soghomonian was relieved of the press secretary post.

Samvel Farmanian was born on February 17 1978 in village of Spandarian,
Shirak region of Armenia.

In 1995 he finished the humanitarian class of the Academic gymnasium
in Giumry with honors.

In 1999 he graduated from the Yerevan State University, history
department, and obtained master’s degree in history in 2001.

In 2001-2003 Farmanian studied in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
Research Center of Lund University in Sweden and obtained a master
degree. He took a post-graduate course at the ethnography chair of
the Yerevan State University in 2001-2004.

He worked in a branch of the Open Society Institute Assistance
Foundation in Armenia as responsible for "Civil Society" and "Mass
Media Outlets" projects in 2003-2005.

In 2005-2006 Farmanian was Advisor to Speaker of Armenian Parliament
on foreign policy issues.

In December 2007 he was elected as Secretary General of the United
Liberal National Party of Armenia (MIAK). He is the author of a
number of scientific and journalistic articles. Married, has two
children.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress