Background and career
Bako Sahaki Sahakyan (Armenian: Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He was the longest-serving president of Artsakh.
He was first elected as president on 19 July 2007. On 19 July 2012, he was re-elected for a second five-year term, receiving approximately two-thirds of the votes. In 2017, he was re-elected indirectly for a three-year term. Sahakyan replaced Arkadi Ghukasyan, who had held the presidential post for two five-year terms.
On October 3, 2023, Azerbaijan detained Bako Sahakyan from the territory of Artsakh, and since that moment he has been held in Baku in captivity.
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