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Armenian premier dismisses head of Department for Protection of RA  Interests at ECHR

Armenian premier dismisses head of Department for Protection of RA  Interests at ECHR

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has dismissed another employee of the Office of International Legal Issues of the Prime Minister's Office.

In particular, according to the information on the government  website, by Pashinyan's decision of September 12, Diana  Aleksandrosovna Leonidi is dismissed from the post of Head of the  Department for the Protection of Interests of the Republic of Armenia  in the European Court of Human Rights under the Office of the  Representative for International Legal Issues of the Office of the  Prime Minister from September 15, 2025.

The head of the Office, Liparit Drmeyan, was dismissed on August 29.  (September, he was replaced by Artem Sujyan, former adviser to the  Minister of Justice, then assistant to Deputy Prime Minister Mher  Grigoryan.

On September 11, Gevorg Sahakyan became Mher Grigoryan's new adviser.  

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