Background
Hakobyan was born in the village of Dovegh in northeastern Armenia, near the Azerbaijan border.
Hakobyan was born in the village of Dovegh in northeastern Armenia, near the Azerbaijan border.
He attended the Yerevan State University and graduated from the Journalism Department in 1995.
Hakobyan has formerly worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Yerkir (1998-2000), Azg (2000-2006), Aztag (since 2005), The Armenian Reporter (2008-2009) and as a political observer on regional issues of Radiolur news program of Public Radio of Armenia (2004-2008). Since 2009 he has been a reporter and an analyst at the independent Civilitas Foundation. Hakobyan has been the director of the Yerevan-based ANI Foundation for Armenian Studies (Հայկական ուսումնասիրությունների ԱՆԻ հիմնադրամ).