Eduard Sharmazanov

{{Short description|Armenian politician}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2017}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Eduard Sharmazanov

| office = Vice President of National Assembly

| native_name = Էդուարդ Նոյեմիկ Շարմազանով

| image =

| termstart = 12 June 2011

| termend = 14 January 2019

| office2 = Spokesperson of Republican Party

| party = Republican Party of Armenia

| 1blankname = President

| 1namedata = Ara Babloyan

| office1 = Member of the National Assembly

| termstart1 = 12 May 2007

| termstart2 = 2011

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1975|11|8}}

| birth_place = Alaverdi, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union

| children = 2

| alma_mater = Armenian State Pedagogical University

| occupation =

}}

Eduard Sharmazanov ({{langx|hy|Էդուարդ Շարմազանով}}; born 8 November 1975) is an Armenian politician.[http://www.parliament.am/deputies.php?sel=details&ID=963&lang=eng Biography of Eduard Sharmazanov] Official website of the National Assembly of Armenia Since 12 June 2011, he has been a Vice President of the National Assembly. After the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election, on 18 May 2017, he was re-elected to that position. Since 2011, he has been the spokesperson of Republican Party of Armenia.

On October 12, after the Armenian defeat on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, he was arrested among other opposition leaders on charges of "illegal conduction of rallies".[https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2020/11/12/sis-arrest/1770324 Leaders of PAP, Homeland parties, ARF-D Supreme Body member and others arrested for illegal conduction of rallies] Aysor, October 12, 2020

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