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Karen Nersesovich Brutents
Soviet political official and writer. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, close adviser of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s. Expert on the Soviet relations with developing countries of Africa and the Middle East.

Biography
Karen Brutnens was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on July 3, 1924 and died in Moscow in 2017. First education--Medical University of Azerbaijan, 1946.

Practiced as a psychiatrist at a Baku state hospital in 1946-1948. In 1950 graduated from Azerbaijan State University, History Faculty, joined the Communist Party and became a lecturer of the Baku City Committee of the CPSU.

In 1954-1958 studied in graduate school at the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow. Defended his Candidate dissertation on "Criticism of the U.S. Ideology of the "New" Colonialism."

In 1961-1969 worked as head of the National Liberation Movements section of the international communist journal Problems of Peace and Socialism in Prague.