Marsel H. Petrosyan
Marsel H. Petrosyan
Standing Committee on Foreign Relations (Deputy chair)
Electoral system, district Proportional
Date of birth 01.04.1948
Political Party "United Motherland"
Faction "United Motherland"
E-mail: m.petrosyan@nankr.am

Born on April 1, 1946 in the city of Stepanakert

1966 – Finished the secondary school No2

1966 - Entered the Yerevan State University «Armenian Language and Literature» department of the Faculty of Philology. From the fourth course moved to Stepanakert Pedagogical Institute, which graduated in 1975, obtaining the qualification of a teacher of Armenian language and literature

Since 1967 - Regional radio editorial operator, then a reporter, and in 1971 in May - Editor-in-chief

1972 - News correspondent, then the children and youth program editor

1974-1975 – Worker in the city of Pyatigorsk, Russia

Having returned to Stepanakert, worked as a correspondent in the Radio Committee, then as a senior editor of the economic programs, a senior editor of the youth programs

1988 - Appointed editor-in-chief of the newly opened Artsakh TV

1990 - Head of the Press Center of the Regional Council of Trade Unions. Chief Specialist of the RA State Committee for Special Programs Humanitarian Sphere then the coordinator

1995 - Deputy Minister of Education and Science

1996 – Worked in the media and press department of the government then in the privatization department

1997-1998 – Assistant to the Prime Minister

June 1988 - Joined the Defense Army as the editor-in-chief of the «Martik» newspaper

2004 – Editor-in-chief of the of "Azat Artsakh" newspaper

2008-2013 – Head of Information Analytical Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2013 - Head of the Department of Bilateral Political Relations

In the March 31, 2020 parliamentary elections was elected deputy to the Republic of Artsakh National Assembly of the 7th convocation by the proportional list of the «United Motherland» party

Has the diplomatic rank of First Secretary, First Class, the title of Honored Journalist of Artsakh, author of six collections of stories.

Awarded the RA Ministry of Defense medal «For Impeccable Service», «Motherly Gratitude», «Mkhitar Gosh» medals

Married, has three children․