(1960-08-30) 30 August 1960 (age 63) Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party
Independent
Alma mater
Artsakh University
Military service
Branch/service
Soviet Army Artsakh Defence Army
Years of service
1978-1980 1990–2007
Rank
General
Battles/wars
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Bako Sahaki Sahakyan[a] (Armenian: Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving president of Artsakh.
He was first elected as president on 19 July 2007. On 19 July 2012, he was re-elected for a second five-year term, receiving approximately two-thirds of the votes.[1] In 2017, he was re-elected indirectly for a three-year term. Sahakyan replaced Arkadi Ghukasyan, who had held the presidential post for two five-year terms.
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Bako Sahaki Sahakyan (Armenian: Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent...
2002, until his term ended on 7 September 2007 and was succeeded by BakoSahakyan. He was detained by Azerbaijani forces after the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive...
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Republic of Artsakh from May 2020 to September 2023. Under his predecessor BakoSahakyan, he served as the sixth and last Prime Minister from 2007 until the...
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the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh on 19 July 2017. The incumbent, BakoSahakyan, was elected to a third term. After a constitutional referendum in 2017...
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Assembly re-elected BakoSahakyan as president for the next three years until the general election. The incumbent President BakoSahakyan declared that he...
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Armenian Armed Forces. In December 2018, by decree of the President BakoSahakyan, Abrahamyan, who was the military chief of staff at the time, was appointed...
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Artsakh Defence Army