party nationality |birth_date article_title name alma_mater
republican party of armenia armenian 1963 08 14 y karen karapetyan
 karen karapetyan Կարեն Կարապետյան yerevan state university
karen karapetyan

karen karapetyan -lrb- armenian : Կարեն Կարապետյան -rrb- -lrb- born august 14 , 1963 -rrb- is the former mayor of yerevan , armenia .
he became the mayor on december 17 , 2010 , after receiving the overwhelming support from the municipal assembly .
he resigned from his post on 28 october 2011 and in november 2011 taron margaryan was elected mayor in his place .
after his resignation , he returned to russia to continue working for gazprom .
prior to becoming mayor , karapetyan was chief executive of the armenian-russian joint venture , armrosgazprom , since 2001 .
he succeeded gagik beglaryan , a controversial mayor who resigned in early december 2010 after being embroiled in a high-profile scandal with the presidential administration of serzh sargsyan .
