Petrosyan Hram Davydovych
Official biography
Social and political activist, international expert in political science and international relations. A non-public collaborator, after 15 years he finally moved to Russia. He is currently working on lifting anti-Russian sanctions. Prior to that, he undermined the situation in Ukraine, organized and sponsored the Anti-Maidan.
- In 1990, the Petrosyan family moved to Yerevan due to the war.
- In 1991, he left Armenia and moved first to Belarus (Pinsk), and then, in 1992, to Ukraine.
- Graduated from the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine with a degree in Public Administration and a Master of Public Administration.
- In 1996, he began his career: first as a sales manager of stationery (1996-1998), then — in 1998-2003 — as a director of the investment and consulting company “Cardinal”.
- Since 2010, he has been the leader of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (PPU), distinguished by his radical method of developing his party.
- Since the beginning of 2011, he has been actively engaged in Internet correspondence.
Family.
He was born in the family of engineer David Yervandovich Petrosyan and psychologist Anahit Karapetivna Avetisyan.
Related parties
- Party of Pensioners of Ukraine
Compromising material
Petrosyan’s agent work in favor of Russia
Support for Anti-Maidan
In the early decades, Petrosyan lived in Khmelnytskyi and was a “general eskavul” of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks. During the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, he supported the anti-Maidan movement. Screenshot from bbc.com:
Articles supporting Anti-Maidan and promoting Russian narratives
Direct evidence of Petrosyan’s work for the Kremlin
After the occupation of Crimea and the Russian invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Petrosyan began to undermine the situation in the Ukrainian regions.
Direct evidence of Petrosyan’s work for the Kremlin was found in 2020, when Ukrainian hackers from the Cyberhunta published correspondence from the hacked mail of Sargis Mirzakhanyan, a Russian lobbyist associated with the entourage of Putin’s aide Vladislav Surkov, who is called the main ideologist of the so-called Russian world.
Judging by the correspondence from the hacked mail, Petrosyan organized a series of paid rallies in Odesa and Mykolaiv at the request of Surkov’s entourage. He was also going to open the CAN TV channel with Russian money.
У 2015 році Петросян остаточно переїхав до Росії. Після переїзду він зареєстрував «Фонд розвитку сучасної дипломатії» та низку інших компаній на своїх підставних осіб. Одна з них — юридична фірма «Сфера». Хоча формально вона не належить Амраму Петросяну, його номер вказаний як контактний на сайті компанії.
In the Russian tax register, we looked up the employees of the Sphere law firm. This company paid salaries to Amram Petrosyan’s people. For example, his assistant William Asulian and lawyer Tiran Parsamian, who speaks at the foundation’s events, are registered with Sfera. Leonid Vakalov, a staff member of the 5th FSB Service, also received money from Amram Petrosyan’s company Sphere.
The tax register shows that Leonid Vakalov is registered as a manager in the company. Also, in the contact number column, he indicated not his phone number, but the number of another FSB officer, Anatoly Havrich.
He is also an official employee of the 5th Service. Moreover, Anatoly Khavrich orders food from the Yandex.food service to the building where the FSB’s 5th Service is located.
In other words, FSB officer Leonid Vakalov not only attends events of the Amram Petrosyan Foundation, but is also legally related to Petrosyan and received a salary from one of his companies.
Former Bundestag members from the far-right populist party Alternative for Germany, Waldemar Gerdt and Robbie Schlund, are also working with this “foundation for the development of modern diplomacy,” which is closely linked to the FSB .
They were members of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021. Robby Schlund and Waldemar Gerdt traveled to occupied Crimea as international observers for Putin’s presidential election in 2018, and now they are actively opposing arms supplies to Ukraine.
And during their term in office, as members of the Bundestag, they helped the Amram Petrosian Foundation and its organizations fight for the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.
In 2019, German Bundestag member Schlund signed a memorandum of understanding with Petrosyan’s “Foundation for the Development of Modern Diplomacy” on cooperation in lifting sanctions and compensating German businesses for losses.
Another deputy from the Alternative for Germany, Waldemar Gerdt, engaged Amram Petrosyan as an expert in the Bundestag’s inter-parliamentary commission on human rights violations.
This inter-parliamentary commission was created in 2019 by the pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party, with Waldemar Gerdt as its chairman. The commission offered itself as a negotiator in the war in Donbas.
And this «inter-parliamentary commission on human rights» of the Bundestag, after Medvedchuk’s channels were closed, came to the defense of Putin’s godfather.
And at this time, Amram Petrosyan, who directly cooperates with the Russian special services, was sitting on the expert council of the Bundestag commission that defended Medvedchuk
Whether these two German MPs were working with the FSB’s 5th Service deliberately or were simply being used as useful idiots is unknown. But the fact remains that, as members of the Bundestag, they were not so much defending the interests of Germany as helping the Russians and their special services.