ArmInfo.Artur Gasparyan has been appointed head of the State Protection Service of the Republic of Armenia.
According to the official website of the government, the decision, was signed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
By another decision of the Prime Minister, Artur Gasparyan was relieved of his post as deputy head of the RA State Security Service.
The position of the head of the State Protection Service has been vacant since September 2023. Then Pashinyan released Sarkis Hovhannisyan (who became scandalously famous during opposition protests in May 2022, he hit a journalist) from the post of head of the State Protection Service.
Previously, the State Protection Service was separated from the system of bodies of the National Security Service and came under the immediate subordination of the country's prime minister.