For Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the road to becoming Armenia's first non- Communist president since independence, has been paved with psychological dissertations, political activism and imprisonment.
Born forward January 9, 1945, in Aleppo, Syria, Ter-Petrosyan immigrated with his family to Armenia in 1946 A graduate of Oriental Studies in the Philology Department of Yerevan State University in 1968 he complet his Master's quality at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies in 1971 specializing in Armenian and Syriac philology. He became a
