Born on October 1, 1961 in the village of Sardarashen of the Askeran region

1978 – Finished the Stepanakert secondary school № 7

1982 - Graduated with honors from the Linguistics Department of the Stepanakert Pedagogical Institute

1982-1984 - Served in the Soviet army

Worked as an interpreter, then correspondent and head of the publicity department of the newspaper "Soviet Kharabakh"

1991 - Senior editor of "Artsakh", collaborated with the newspapers "Amaras" and "Artsakh time"

1992-1993 - Head of the information service of the NKR Supreme Council of the first convocation, press secretary of the chairman of the Supreme Council

1994 - Worked in Artsakh television, then served in the NKR Defense Army as deputy commander of the training regiment for political affairs. The same year was appointed Acting Editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Artsakh" ("NK Republic")

1995 - Served in the NKR Defense Army

1996 - Temporarily moved to the Kaliningrad region, where he worked in regional newspapers "Free Zone" and "Kaliningrad Pravda". He was the messenger of the newspaper Noes Deutschland published in Moscow

1997 - Moved to Yerevan and worked as an editor in the Noyan Tapan agency. The same year he returned to Stepanakert and was appointed deputy head of the information and press department and collaborated with the newspaper "Republic of Armenia"

1998 - Chairman of the Stepanakert Press Club

1998 - Appointed editor-in- chief of the republican official newspaper "Azat Artsakh"

1999 - Together with his colleagues he created a socio-political newspaper "The 10th Province", was its editor-in-chief. Then he collaborated with the newspaper "Haykakan Zhamanak"

2000 - Published the book "Journey to the Land of Hayk" about an attempt to climb to the top of Mount Ararat in the fall of 1999 as part of a group of climbers

2004-2008 - Editor of the newspaper "Demo"

June 19, 2005 - Elected deputy of the National Assembly of the 4th convocation of the NKR by a proportional system he was

Since 2009 - Chief editor of analytical publication "Analyticon"

Co-chairman of the international journalistic organization "South Caucasus", an expert of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation, and participated in international and regional journalistic and peacekeeping projects

Married, has one child