Karen Demirchyan

Karen Demirchyan (Armenian: Կարեն Սերոբի Դեմիրճյան, Russian: Карен Серобович Демирчян; April 17, 1932 – October 27, 1999) was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician. Soon after his reemergence into active politics in independent Armenia in the late 1990s, he became speaker of the Armenian parliament in 1999 until his assassination with other politicians in parliament in the Armenian parliament shooting.