In 1991 , Gasparyan defended his thesis and was awarded candidacy for a PhD in History . Shortly afterwards , he took a job as a researcher at the Department of New History of the NAS RA Institute of History . Gasparyan was thereupon elected Chair of the Young Researchers ’ Council and continued in this role until 1997 . Along with this job , he held the position of Scientific Secretary for four years ’ time ( 1995-1999 ) . From 1999 to 2009 , he was in charge of the Department of Higher Education and the Department of Higher and Postgraduate Education at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia , and ran classes for master 's program students at Yerevan State University . In 2009 , he returned to the National Academy of Sciences . From 1 July 2010 to June 2011 , he was Head of the Department of the Armenian Question and the History of the Armenian Genocide . In June 2011 , Gasparyan moved back to the Department of Modern History where he remained until the end of his life . Ruben Gasparyan would have brought the work on his doctoral thesis to a close but for the serious illness which hindered him from fulfilling it . The NAS RA Institute of History intends to develop Gasparyan ’s research work for its final release and have it published in 2015
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ruben Gasparyan