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Academician and professor Ruben Safrastyan (Ռուբեն Սաֆրաստյան; born 5 October 1955) is the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences and Professor of History and Turkish Studies at the Yerevan State University. In the past, he served as a Counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany and was the Deputy Director of the Department of Political Analysis for the Office of the first President of Armenia. During last years, he has received Humboldt (Germany), Fulbright (USA), and International Policy (Hungary) fellowships and conducted researches at the universities of Bochum, Berkeley, and Budapest. His publications include 12 authorized and edited books and 130 articles and papers. His areas of specialization include Turkish, Ottoman, Genocide, Middle Eastern and Regional Studies. Prof. Safrastyan is founding editor of the Academic Periodicals “The Turkic and Ottoman Studies” and “Contemporary Eurasia”, as well as editor of the Academic Yearbook “Peoples and Countries of the Near and Middle East” (Yerevan, Armenia).

Biography
Ruben Safrastyan was born on 5 October 1955 in Yerevan. In 1977 he received his University Diploma on Turkish Studies and Armenian Studies in Yerevan State University's Department of Oriental Studies.

During 1978 - 1980 Ruben Safrastyan got his Post-Graduate Program (Aspirantura) on World History and History of Turkey, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia Prof. Safrastyan’s honorary international activities include membership of International Board of World Security Network Foundation, N.Y. (USA), membership of Editorial Board of international peer-reviewed journal “Sociology and Anthropology”, Horizon Research Publishing, Alhambra (USA). He is also Senior Fellow at New Westminster College, Vancouver (Canada) and Senior Analyst at Wikistrat Inc, Washington, D.C. (USA). Prof. Safrastyan is Member of Public Council of Armenia and Chairman of his Commission of Religion, Diaspora, and International Integration. For his professional achievements, Prof. Dr. Ruben Safrastyan was decorated by Medals as well as by other awards, including the Movses Khorenatsi medal, which is is the Republic of Armenia's highest cultural award.

Current academic positions

 * 2006 - 	Director of Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1998 - 	Head of Department of Turkish Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Current teaching positions
2011 - 	Professor, Armenian Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan, Yerevan, Armenia 2008 -	Professor, Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of History, Armenian National Academy of Sciences Yerevan, Armenia 2007-	Professor, Yerevan State University Yerevan, Armenia
 * MA Courses: Politics of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire, The Problem of Recognition of Armenian Genocide by International Organizations
 * MA Courses: Introduction to Regional Geopolitics, Historiography of Turkish and Ottoman Studies, Globalization: Political Aspects
 * MA and BA Courses: Introduction to Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Introduction to Genocide Studies, Regional Policy of Turkey, Ottomanism and Neo-ottomanism

Current editorial positions

 * 2009 -	Member of Editorial Board, Vem, All-Armenian Journal
 * 2007 -	Head of Editorial Board, Countries and Peoples of the Near and Middle East, Yearbook, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences
 * 2002 -	Founder, Editor and Head of Editorial Board, Turkic and Ottoman Studies, Yearbook, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Current public activities
Commission of Religion, Diaspora, and International Integration
 * 2009:	Member of Public Council of Republic of Armenia, Chairman of

Other professional activates (International)

 * 2007 -	Standing Contributor, International Analyst Network, N.Y., USA
 * 2007 -	Member of International Advisory Board, Nebula online international academic periodical, University of Sydney, Australia
 * 2006 -	Member of International Board and Contributor, World Security Network Foundation, N.Y., USA
 * 2004 -	Contributor, Global Politician, N.Y., USA

Professional membership (International)

 * Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
 * Fulbright Association
 * German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)

Local scientific contribution

 * Scientific Council, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Chairman)
 * Scientific Council for conferring Scientific Degrees in the field of World History, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Chairman)
 * Scientific Council, Department of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University

Academic degrees and titles

 * 2014:  Academician (Oriental Studies), Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 2010:	Corresponding Member (Oriental Studies), Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 2009:	Doctor of Sciences (History), Supreme Certifying Commission of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 2007:	Professor of History, Supreme Certifying Commission of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1992:  Assoc. Professor (Docent) of Middle and Near East History, State Committee of USSR of Higher Education, Moscow, Russia
 * 1983:  Ph.D., History, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Education and training

 * 1999:	German Study Program (High Level), Goethe-Institute, Gottingen, Germany
 * 1978 - 1980:	Post-Graduate Program (Aspirantura) on World History and History of Turkey, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1972 - 1977: 	Higher Education – University Diploma on Turkish Studies and Armenian Studies, Yerevan State University, Department of Oriental Studies, Yerevan, Armenia

Government Service

 * 1992 - 1996: 	Deputy Director, Department of Political Analysis, Office of the President of the RA, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1991 - 1992: 	Senior Expert on International Relations, Department of Political Analysis and Information, Supreme Soviet of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Diplomatic Service

 * 1996 - 1997: 	Counselor of the Embassy, Armenian Embassy in Germany, Bonn, Germany

Academic Positions

 * 2001 –2002: Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar, Institute of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
 * 1999 - 2000: 	G. Foster Visiting Fellow (A. von Humboldt Foundation), Institute of East European Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
 * 1991 - 1998: 	Director of Research Program on Modern Turkey, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1988 - 1991: 	Deputy Director, Department of Armenian Diasporian Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1981 - 1988: 	Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Teaching Positions
Courses: Regional Policy of Turkey, History of Armenian-Turkish Relations Course: World History Courses: World Modern and Contemporary History and History of Turkey Courses: Introduction to Ottoman Studies, Introduction to Genocide Studies, History of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Regional Policy of Turkey, Ottoman and Turkish Historiography, History of Ottoman Empire, Political Parties in Modern and Contemporary Turkey, History of Turkish Political Thought, History of Political Modernization of the Ottoman Empire
 * 2004 – 2008	Professor, Department of History and International Relations, “Hrachya Acharyan” Private University, Yerevan, Armenia
 * 1983 - 1992: 	Senior Lecturer, Associated Professor (Docent), Chair of Humanities, State Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia,
 * 1986 - 1987: 	Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Armenian State Pedagogical Institute, Yerevan, Armenia,
 * 1986 - 2007:	Senior Lecturer, Associated Professor (Docent), Department of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia,

Grants and Fellowships (Last years)
Research Project: Armenian-Turkish Relations: From Interstate Dispute to Neighborliness Research Project: “Between Historical Memory and Geopolitics: Armenian-Turkish Relations, 1991-2001”
 * 2003 – 2004: 	International Policy Fellowship (CEU - OSI, Hungary)
 * 2001 – 2002: 	Fulbright Senior Scholarship (USA)
 * 1999 - 2000: 	G. Foster Fellowship, A. von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Research Project: "The Process of Political Modernization of the Ottoman Empire: Ethnical-Confessional Aspects (19th Century)"

Supervision on Defended PhD Dissertations

 * 2000: 		The Political System of Turkey in 1920-1930s
 * 2005:	The Repercussion of the Armenian Genocide in the Official Turkish Historiography 	(1923-1970)
 * 2005:	The Factor of the Armenian Genocide in the Armenian-Turkish Relations (1991-2004)
 * 2005:		Devshirme in Ottoman Empire
 * 2007:	The 1980 Military coup d'état in Turkey: The Causes, the Progression and the repercussions
 * 2008:		The Regional Policy of Turkey (1991-2001)
 * 2011:		The Alevi Problem in Republican Turkey
 * 2011:	The Policy of Turkey in Central Asia in the End of 20th – Beginning of 21st C.

Publications

 * 1981 -	5 authorized books, 4 textbooks 15 edited books, approximately 170 papers and articles, regular interviews to local and international mass media, authorized TV serial presentations

Research in archives abroad
Sofia, Bulgaria: 	Centre International d'Information sur les Sources de l'histoire balkanique et méditerranéenne
 * Moscow, Russia: 	Archives of the Foreign Policy of Russian Empire, Centra State Archives of Military 	History, Central State Archives of the October Revolution and Supreme Government Bodies

Field research on Armenian diaspora communities

 * Bulgaria,
 * Cyprus,
 * Denmark,
 * France,
 * Germany,
 * Greece,
 * Iran,
 * Lebanon,
 * Netherlands,
 * Russia,
 * Switzerland,
 * Turkey,
 * USA

Languages

 * Armenian (native),
 * Bulgarian,
 * English (active),
 * French,
 * German (active),
 * Russian (active),
 * Turkish (active)

Armenian state awards

 * 2010:	Ministry of Defense Medal “Garegin Njdeh”
 * 2008:	Presidential Medal “Movses Khorenatsi” for achievements in the field of Social Sciences

Other medals

 * Armenian

2005:	Medal for the merit in the field of Genocide Studies, State Commission of the Armenian Genocide
 * International

2010:	Memorial Mechijev Medal, Russian Lermontov Committee

Public honor

 * 2009:	Scientist of Year, “Iravunk” weekly

Political activities
leading MP Candidate from Christian-Democratic Union of 	Armenia
 * 2003:	Participating in the general election campaign in Armenia as

Election observation mission from OSCE/ODIHR

 * 2011:	Kazakhstan – Presidential Election
 * 2012: Kazakhstan – Parliamentarian Election
 * 2012: Russia - Presidential Election