Vahram Martirosyan

From 1996 to 1999, served as Vice President and Acting Executive Director of the newly founded AR private television company, where he created and hosted informational, political, and cultural programs.

2022-2023: hosted Discoveries, an authorial program on Boon TV, analyzing works of the 1990s and 2000s generations through a narrative approach.

2003: spent August 2023 in Sos village, Artsakh, publishing the Borderland Country article series in Aliq Media.

2022-2023: filmed two movies and three programs titled Ukraine: The War of Everyone, which aired multiple times on Azatutyun.

Organized one of the rare late-Brezhnev-era demonstrations in 1978, supporting the Armenian community of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.

Attempted to organize protests against the Soviet government’s secret decision to mandate teaching professional subjects in Russian in national universities in 1979, which were thwarted by the KGB.

Blocked by state security services from transferring to another university (Sverdlovsk, 1979), traveling as a tourist to capitalist countries (Finland, 1986; Greece, 1988), and faced phone tapping, mail surveillance, and personal life interference.

The author acknowledged the criticism, explaining that opposition journalists who initially agreed to participate later withdrew.

Disillusioned by the government’s failure to implement radical reforms after its election victory, he resigned from his position as head of political and informational programs on state television.