Thrash an ARF Member, Get Promoted

Instead of disciplinary action for being involved in the beating of ARF member Pavel Manukian (see: NKR POLITICAL FORCES PURSUE DISMISSAL OF OFFICIALS HAVING BEATEN PAVEL MANUKIAN) which took place last summer in NKR Defence Minister Seyran Ohanian’s office, Major-General Vartan Balayan is promoted.

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NKR PRESIDENT SIGNS APPOINTMENT DECREES

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Nov 7 2005

YEREVAN, November 7. /ARKA/. President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Arkady Ghukasyan has signed decrees appointing Major-General Vardan Balayan Depuity Commander of the NKR Defense Army and Major-General Leva Mnatsakanyan Deputy Commander of NKR Defense Army.