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Serzh Varag Siseryan holds 75% of shares in Radar ARM LLC, making him the majority shareholder and founder of the company, which operates the online media outlet radar.am. According to the company charter, this gives him the largest number of votes in management decisions.

Siseryan was born on November 10, 1988, in Sèvres, France. He earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Health from the American University of Beirut, a master's degree in International Relations from Yerevan State University in 2012, and a master's degree in Political Science and International Affairs from the American University of Armenia in 2017.

From 2009 to 2017, Siseryan worked at Radio Sevan in Beirut as Deputy Director, Head of the Armenian Office, and news analyst. He served as a teaching assistant at the American University of Armenia from 2016 to 2018 and as a research analyst at the government's Centre for Strategic Initiatives Foundation from 2017 to 2018.

From June 1, 2018, to November 16, 2020, Siseryan served as head of the office of Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, who currently serves as Mayor of Yerevan. Upon submitting his resignation, Siseryan announced that he was leaving the Civil Contract party, the ruling political force in Armenia. He explained that his decision to resign and withdraw from the party was prompted by a Facebook post made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, in which the Prime Minister wrote that he was waiting in Yerevan for soldiers from the front line to finally settle the issue of those whining under the walls. Years later, reflecting on that moment, Siseryan said that the post stirred something in him and that he preferred to step away, though leaving the party did not mean a change in his political views.

Siseryan is the son of Ara Siseryan, who previously served as advisor to the Prime Minister of Lebanon. According to a 2023 investigation by Civilnet, the family of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan purchased a 1,000-square-meter plot of land in Nork-Marash, Yerevan, from Ara Siseryan at a price ten times lower than the market value in 2022.

Nzhdeh Hovsepyan has served as director of Radar ARM LLC since 2022. He is a historian by profession and regularly provides media commentary as an analyst.

From January to August 2021, Hovsepyan served as press secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan. In August 2021, he was appointed press secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Suren Papikyan and held this position until January 2022, when he was dismissed. In 2020, he briefly served as acting director of the Public Relations and Information Centre SNCO for 10 days.

Tigran Avinyan has served as Mayor of Yerevan since 2023. Two key figures at Radar.am, founder Serzh Varag Siseryan and director Nzhdeh Hovsepyan, previously worked in his office during his tenure as Deputy Prime Minister from 2018 to 2021. Siseryan served as head of Avinyan's office from 2018 to 2020, while Hovsepyan worked as press secretary from January to August 2021.

From 2019 to 2023, Avinyan chaired the Armenia National Interests Fund, an organization established to attract foreign investment. The fund was later dissolved, leaving behind failed projects and ongoing court cases. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan publicly described the ANIF experience as a failure and disgrace.

Avinyan ran in the 2017 parliamentary elections on the Yelk (Way Out) Alliance list, which included Pashinyan's Civil Contract party. Although the alliance entered parliament, Avinyan did not obtain a mandate, as he was placed 32nd on the list. Before entering politics, he founded and managed Irigate, a company specializing in irrigation systems and landscape design. He also worked at the Armenian Development Bank from 2009 to 2013 as a senior business lending specialist.

Several investigative reports have examined the property and business interests of Avinyan and his family. In 2025, Hetq reported on a villa under construction in Sevan belonging to Avinyan's father, Armen Avinyan. In 2024, CivilNet, in collaboration with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, revealed that during Avinyan's tenure as Deputy Prime Minister overseeing agriculture, his family-owned company Irigate served as a contractor for nine beneficiaries of a state program supporting vineyard and orchard development.

Avinyan has frequently criticized media outlets, stating that the media in Armenia has turned into a big garbage dump.