YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Public Television and Radio Company Council has appointed today  Mark Grigoryan as  Executive Director of the Public Radio of Armenia. 

Mark Grigoryan was born in 1958 in Yerevan. In 1980, after graduating from Yerevan State University, he joined the Yerevan Scientific Research and Design Institute of Automated Urban Management Systems.

He began a journalist’s career in 1993 as deputy editor of ‘Svoboda" newspaper in Yerevan. In 1995-1996 he worked for the Armenian International Magazine. He has authored and edited 16 books, many research  and journalistic articles and is one of the founders of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan.

In late 2002, following an assassination attempt, he moved to London, UK, where he worked for the Russian service of the BBC. In 2003, he received the Hellman / Hammett Journalist Award in recognition of courage in the face of political persecution. In 2014 he returned to Armenia, and worked for various TV channels. Since 2016 he has served as adviser to the executive director of Public Radio. -0-

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