Arayik Harutyunyan
Arayik Harutyunyan 
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| Name in Armenian | Արայիկ Հարությունյան |
| Birthplace | Stepanakert |
| Birth date | 14 December 1973 |
| Lived in | Stepanakert, yerevan |
| Education | Artsakh State University, Yerevan State Institute of Economy |
| Languages | Armenian, Russian |
| Ethnicities | Armenian |
| Dialects | Karabakh Armenian |
| Spouses | Kristina Harutyunyan |
| Children | 3 |
Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan (Armenian: Արայիկ Վլադիմիրի Հարությունյան; born 14 December 1973) is an Armenian politician who served as the fourth president of the Republic of Artsakh from May 2020 to September 2023. Under his predecessor Bako Sahakyan, he served as the sixth and last Prime Minister from 2007 until the abolishment of that position in 2017 and as the first State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh from 2017 until his resignation in 2018. Harutyunyan led Artsakh through the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War with Azerbaijan, during which the republic lost most of the territory under its control. He resigned on 1 September 2023 in the midst of the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh.[1][2]
On 3 October 2023, he and two other former presidents of Artsakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan, together with former president of the National Assembly Davit Ishkhanyan, were detained by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan and taken to Baku.