Personal Life
Serzh Sargsyan was born on June 30, 1954 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR. He entered the Yerevan State University in 1971, served in the Soviet Armed Forces during 1971-72, and graduated from the Philological Department of Yerevan State University in 1979. In 1983, he married his wife, Rita. They have two daughters, Anush and Satenik, and one granddaughter, Mariam. Sargsyan is also the chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation. In addition to his native Armenian, he is fluent also in Russian. He is of no relation to the current Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan.
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