YEREVAN.- Fired university rector Suren Zolyan said the education minister did his utmost for him not to start a new academic year as a rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University.

Suren Zolyan, was dismissed from his post under the order of Armenia’s Education Minister Armen Ashotyan. Zolyan filed a complaint considering the dismissal illegal but has not achieved any results.

Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Zolyan said he had not received any job offer from the Armenian universities “probably not to offend the minister.”

Suren Zolyan said he would leave for Tallinn for three months to do research. Later he plans to return to Armenia and work here, he added.

“They make me leave the country,” Zolyan emphasized.

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