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Gagik Tsarukyan ((アルメニア語:Գագիկ Ծառուկյան)) is an Armenian businessman and politician.〔Liz Fuller, ("Armenia: Election Campaign Gets Off To Uneasy Start" ), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 19, 2007.〕 He is seen as the most influential of Armenia's government-connected "oligarchs" and key business partner of former President Robert Kocharyan,〔David Petrosyan. (The Political System of Armenia: Form and Content ). (Caucasus analytical digest ) (No.17. 21 May 2010) "The Prosperous Armenia party is a political project founded by former President Kocharyan and led by the oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan, who is a key business partner of Kocharyan"〕 owning over a dozen big businesses and living in a large mansion on a hilltop overlooking the northern outskirts of Yerevan.〔 He is better known in Armenia by his nickname "Dodi Gago" (Դոդի Գագո).〔Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. (Different Election, Same Story: Money for votes gives oligarch’s protégé control of city distric ). "The outcome of the race was all but predetermined by the fact that Hovannisian is actively backed and sponsored by Gagik Tsarukian (popularly known by his nickname, “Dodi Gago”), one of the country’s richest and most feared men, who is close to President Robert Kocharian"〕〔Matthew Collin. (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/this-armenian-offers-a-potato-in-every-pot/199493.html ). The Moscow Times (29 January 2007). "These are high times for the man they call Dodi Gago... His real name is Gagik Tsarukyan, although many Armenians know him better by his nickname"〕〔Tony Halpin. (Money, muscle and a menagerie win power ). The Times (May 14, 2007). "He remains a physically powerful man a decade after winning world and European arm-wrestling championships. His muscle-bound image led many Armenians to call him “Dodi Gago”, a nickname he despises because it means roughly “stupid Gagik”. Few would dare say it to his face."〕〔Dr Armine Ishkanian, "Democracy building and civil society in post-Soviet Armenia", Routledge, 2008. P. 42-43. "In the above interview, Rosa refers to Penzagalonki (petrol station) Vartan. Such nicknames are common among oligarchs and their bodyguards, whom she refers to as 'gorillas' in the quote above. Many of these men are better known by these nicknames than by their proper names. For instance, the following are the nicknames of oligarchs who are also MPs in the Armenian National Assembly: Lfik (brassiere) Samo, Alyuraguhtsi (flour mill) Lyovik, Tsaghik (flower) Rubo, Kombikormi (animal feed) Vlad, Lady Hagop and Dodi (idiot's son) Gago. Most Armenians know these individuals solely by their monikers and would be hard pressed to give their proper names. Some of these names reflect the products these oligarchs traded in prior to becoming wealthy, while other monikers refer to some personal characteristic. Oligarchs are actively engaged in politics through their election to the National Assembly in 2003 or the creation of their own political parties. In 2006, one of the wealthiest oligarchs, Gagik (Dodi Gago) Tsarukian. established the Prosperous Armenia (Parkavatch Hayastari) political party. Within a few months, this newly created party had over 300,000 registered members and subsequently came in second, gaining 14.7 per cent of the votes behind the leading Republican Party."〕 Tsarukyan is the founder and former leader of Prosperous Armenia political party〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gagik Tsarukyan:: Political Career )〕 and also the president of Armenia's National Olympic Committee〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The president of Armenian National Olympic Committee Gagik Tsarukyan )〕 (was reelected on December 4, 2008).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gagik Tsarukyan was reelected as ANOC president )〕 Tsarukyan graduated from Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture in 1989. He was involved in sports, mainly boxing, wrestling and arm wrestling. In 1996 Gagik Tsarukyan has become world champion in arm-wrestling, and in 1998 champion of Europe.〔(Profile on Armenian Parliament website ).〕 Since 1989 Tsarukyan has been engaged in entrepreneurship. In 1995 he founded and presided Multi Group" Concern group of companies which now includes more than 30 enterprises:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gagik Tsarukyan:: Career in Business )〕 "Kotayk" beer factory in Abovyan, Yerevan Chemical Pharmaceutical Company,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gagik Nikolay Tsarukyan the president of branchy concern "Multi Group" )〕 "Mek" Network of Furniture Stores,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Mek" Network of Furniture Stores )〕 Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory )〕 etc. Tsarukyan is accused of depriving ownership rights of foreign investors in Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory. Since 2003, Tsarukyan has been a RA National Assembly deputy. On May 25, 2003 he was elected as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia from District 42 after running unopposed, later becoming a member of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs; he was not a member of a parliamentary faction during this term.〔 In late 2005 he founded the Prosperous Armenia Party.〔 During the first congress of Prosperous Armenia Party, on April 30, 2004, Tsarukyan was elected as its president.〔 During the fourth congress of the party, on February 12, 2009, Tsarukyan was re-elected as the party president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gagik Nikolay Tsarukyan was unanimously reelected as the leader of the party )〕 He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 2007 parliamentary election from District 28 as a Prosperous Armenia candidate. Following this election he became head of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction and a member of the Committee on the Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs in June 2007.〔 == Biography == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gagik Tsarukyan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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