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Georgi Kutoyan is the new National Security Service Director


Georgi Kutoyan
Georgi Kutoyan

Photo: Press service of the Armenian President


Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree to relieve National Security Service Director Gorik Hakobyan of his post.

Gorik Hakobyan was appointed Advisor to the President by another decree signed by Serzh Sargsyan.

 

Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree to relieve Deputy Prosecutor General Georgi Kutoyan of his post and appoint him a National Security Service Director.

 

Georgi Kutoyan was born in Yerevan on September 30, 1981.

 

In 2002, he graduated with honors from the Law Department of the Rostov State University in the Russian Federation. 

 

In 2005, he concluded postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, defended a thesis titled “The 1950 Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Republic of Armenia’s National Legal System” (constitutional and legal research) and was awarded the scientific degree of a Candidate of Juridical Sciences.

 

In 2007, he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in the US.

 

In 2002-2010, he was teaching at the Armenian-Russian (Slavic) University, the Armenian Public Administration Academy and the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

 

In 2005-2006, he worked at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia, first as a researcher at the scientific and teaching center and later as a lecturer at the Law and Structural Reforms Division.

 

In 2006-2007, he worked at the Office of the Ombudsman of Armenia, as the Senior Advisor to the Ombudsman, and in 2008-2010 as the Senior Legal Advisor of the Ombudsman Staff.

 

In 2008, he received a lawyer’s license, and was engaged in private practice as a lawyer in 2010-2011.

 

In 2011-2016, he was Assistant to the President of Armenia.    

 

Georgi Kutoyan is the State Counselor of Justice Class I.

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