Bako Sahakyan

Bako Sahakyan
Բակո Սահակյան
Sahakyan in 2008
3rd President of Artsakh
In office
7 September 2007 – 21 May 2020
Prime MinisterAnushavan Danielyan
Arayik Harutyunyan
Preceded byArkadi Ghukasyan
Succeeded byArayik Harutyunyan
Interior Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh
In office
1999–2001
PresidentArkadi Ghukasyan
Personal details
Born (1960-08-30) 30 August 1960 (age 64)
Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyIndependent
Alma materArtsakh University
Military service
Branch/service Soviet Army
Artsakh Defence Army
Years of service1978-1980
1990–2007
RankGeneral
Battles/warsFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War

Bako Sahaki Sahakyan[a] (Armenian: Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving president of Artsakh.

He was first elected as president on 19 July 2007. On 19 July 2012, he was re-elected for a second five-year term, receiving approximately two-thirds of the votes.[1] In 2017, he was re-elected indirectly for a three-year term. Sahakyan replaced Arkadi Ghukasyan, who had held the presidential post for two five-year terms.

On October 3, 2023, Azerbaijan detained Bako Sahakyan from the territory of Artsakh, and since that moment he has been held in Baku in captivity.[2]


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