Tigran Khzmalyan

Education

Political and social activism

In 1988-1990 was a participant of national liberation movement for Karabagh unification with Armenia. In 1991-1993 he worked as a war correspondent for Armenian and international media in Nagorno Karabagh, as well as information assistant of the chairman of the NKR Supreme Council, Mr. Georgiy Petrosyan. In 1993-1996 worked as a political analyst for Armenian Assembly of America, a lobby group of Armenian Diaspora in Washington, DC. In 1997-1998 was appointed a Deputy Director of UNDP in Armenia. In 1998-2005 headed Yerevan Film Studio as a General Manager, before the closing of the studio. .In 2009, together with Jirair Sefilian and Alexander Yenikomshian founded Sardarapat Movement, that later was renamed to Preparliament.

In early 2012, Khzmalyan was one of the leaders of the Mashtots Park Movement. Since 2014 he quit his cooperation with Preparliament due to disagreement on role of Russia in Ukrainian crisis and in regional developments. Khzmalyan held radical anti-Kremlin position, claiming that Putin and his KGB regime had annihilated Armenian statehood and colonized Armenia. In 2016 he joined veteran dissident Paruyr Hayrikyan in pro-Western political movement called Independence. He underwent three trials being accused in disobedience to police during public rallies in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Filmography

2014, Armenian Queens, DV, documentary, 96 min