Albert Ovsepyan Explained

Albert Ovsepyan[1] (Armenian: Ալբերտ Հովսեփյան; 13 January 1938) is an Armenian-Abkhazian politician, a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia and a former Vice-Speaker of the Assembly.

Biography

Ovsepyan was born in Parnaut, a settlement in the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[2] He graduated from Sukhumi Pedagogical Institute, spending most of his career as an educator.[2] Ovsepyan was elected to the People's Assembly of Abkhazia at its thirteenth convocation.[2] He became Vice-Speaker of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia in March 2006, replacing its previous vice-speaker, Alexander Stranichkin, who had nominated Ovsepyan.[3]

On 3 May 2010, Ovsepyan retired from the post of Vice-Speaker on account of old age.[4]

Notes

  1. The Abkhazian language employs a modified form of Cyrillic rather than Latin letters, and Ovsepyan's surname, written in Armenian script as Հովսեփյան, may also be transliterated as Ovsepian, Hovsepian, or Hovsepyan.
  2. http://www.nregion.com/print.php?i=437 "Альберт Овсепян избран вице-спикером Парламента самопровозглашенной республики Абхазия".
  3. http://www.regnum.ru/news/618720.html "Грузия нуждается во внешней поддержке: Абхазия за неделю".
  4. Web site: ru:Выпуск №245-246 . http://www.apsnypress.info/news2010/Mai/03.htm . . 19 May 2010 . Russian . 3 May 2010 .