In October 1988 , Hovannisian wrote an article for the '' Los Angeles Times '' supporting the Karabakh movement . He was in Soviet Armenia in December 1988 , when an earthquake shook northwestern parts of the country . In February 1990 , he settled in a one-bedroom apartment off Azizbekov Square ( now Sakharov Square ) in capital Yerevan . Hovannisian was the Yerevan office director of the Armenian Assembly of America . His family moved to Yerevan in fall 1990
earthquake
1988 Armenian earthquake
Raffi Hovannisian