Hayk Gevorgyan

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Hayk Gevorgyan acquired a 20% stake in Dareskizb LLC in September 2002, when two founders transferred their 10% shares to him. He remains a shareholder in the company.


Gevorgyan began his journalism career in 1994 at Lragir daily newspaper, contributing until 1996. From 1996 to 1998, he engaged in private entrepreneurship. From 1998 to 2018, he worked at Haykakan Zhamanak as a correspondent, photographer, and economic commentator. He served as director of Dareskizb LLC from 2013 to 2019.


In 2018, Gevorgyan entered politics. On December 9, he was elected to the National Assembly through the My Step alliance's national electoral list.


Gevorgyan has close ties to Prime Minister Pashinyan's family and inner circle. In addition to his long tenure at Haykakan Zhamanak and his stake in Dareskizb LLC, he is also a co-founder of Nikan Publishing LLC alongside Anna Hakobyan, Prime Minister Pashinyan's wife. In May 2014, Hakobyan transferred her 80% stake in Nikan Publishing to her mother, Kima Mkrtchyan, while Gevorgyan retained his 20%.

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  • Nikan Publishing LLC (20%)

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  • Nikol Pashinyan
    Nikol Pashinyan is the son-in-law of Kima Mkrtchyan, the majority shareholder of Dareskizb LLC. A journalist turned politician, he founded Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper in 1999 and served as its editor-in-chief until 2012. From 2006 to 2008, he also served as director of Dareskizb LLC, the company that owns the outlet. He became Prime Minister of Armenia in 2018 following the Velvet Revolution. Since 1992, Pashinyan worked with various newspapers. In 1998, he founded the daily newspaper Oragir, which was shut down by court order in 1999 for political reasons. During his journalistic career, several criminal cases were initiated against him on charges of defamation and insult. In August 1999, he was sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment. At the request of the international and Armenian journalistic community, the appellate court postponed execution of the sentence for one year, which resulted in the imprisonment not being carried out. Pashinyan began his political career as an opposition figure by participating in the founding of the Alternative socio-political movement in 2006. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was the top candidate on the Impeachment alliance list. During the 2008 presidential elections, he served as a member of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's campaign headquarters. After the events of March 1, 2008, he went into hiding for one year and four months while wanted by law enforcement. On July 1, 2009, he voluntarily surrendered to the prosecutor's office and was arrested. In January 2010, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of organizing mass disturbances. After serving one year and eleven months, he was released on May 27, 2011, under an amnesty. Following his release, he was elected to the National Assembly in the 2012 parliamentary elections on the proportional list of the Armenian National Congress alliance. In 2013, he founded the Civil Contract public-political association, which became a party in 2015. In the April 2, 2017 parliamentary elections, he was again elected to the National Assembly on the Yelk alliance's electoral list. From May 2017, he served as head of the Yelk parliamentary faction. In 2018, Pashinyan launched the My Step movement, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan following the Velvet Revolution. Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister of Armenia and is currently serving his third term, which will conclude in 2026. His Civil Contract party is preparing to participate in the 2026 elections.
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Biographical information about Hayk Gevorgyan is available in open sources, while details about his business activities can be found in the State Register of Legal Entities.

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  • Dareskizb LLC profile (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC profile (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC CEO (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC owners (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC charter (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC updated (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC updated (Armenian)
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  • Dareskizb LLC financial report (Armenian)
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  • MOM request to Haykakan Zhamanak(Armenian)
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