Question: Facts: - party: communist people 's party -lrb- 1998-99 -rrb- party of the soviet union -lrb- 1954-1988 -rrb- - predecessor: anton kochinyan khosrov harutyunyan - birth date: 17 april 1932 - alt: demirchyan - death date: 27 october 1999 - office: first the national assembly full member of the 25th central committee secretary of the communist party of the soviet union of the armenian communist party speaker of - term end: 21 may 1988 27 october 1999 1988 - name: karen demirchyan - death place: yerevan , armenia - birth place: yerevan , armenian ssr , soviet union - signature: karen demirchyan signature.jpg - successor: suren harutyunyan armen khachatryan - restingplace: komitas pantheon , yerevan - native name: - nationality: armenian - imagesize: 200px - children: stepan demirchyan - term start: 27 november 1974 11 june 5 march 1976 - image: file : karen demirchyan 1999.png Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karen demirchyan .
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karen demirchyan -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- april 17 , 1932 -- october 27 , 1999 -rrb- was a soviet and armenian politician .he served as the first secretary of the armenian soviet socialist republic from 1974 to 1988 .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 .