OUR TEAM

Tatiana Oganesyan
Chairman of the VIVA Foundation

Viktor Mikhailov
Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics

Viktor Mikhailov
Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics
I am easygoing, but sometimes my jokes can be sharp. I am an idealist and a man of principle, which sometimes can hinder success. Competition is not always the engine of progress – its effect can sometimes obscure and deter real development.
I like to communicate with the youth and I believe that good teachers learn from their students. If you didn’t participate in the change of the regime when you were young, you either had a happy youth or missed out on it.
I strongly believe that humanity deserves better. Our common task it to make the world a better place. Inaction is worse than failed initiatives.
Doing charity is not easy. You shouldn’t expect dividends or gratitude. Unfortunately, some people will think that you are doing it for a reason and not only out of ideological motives. Don’t waste time on proving the opposite – it will just create an additional negative background in the perception of people. Charity must be targeted and professional. You do not need to be rich to do charity – everyone can do it.

Anahit Andreasyan
Commercial director at a manufacturing company

Anahit Andreasyan
Commercial director at a manufacturing company
The most important human quality is dignity. It is directly proportional to the virtue you see in others.
I do not like to be in the spotlight. I prefer to do my job quietly, but the result of my work must be impeccable and tangible.
Love is unlimited trust and your most natural state. Happiness is always there, although often we do not notice it. The quintessence of my happiness is my child.
I strongly believe in the power and energy of our emotions. The birth of my kid is the result of the immense power of my love thrown into the cosmos. The power of my hope is so great that sometimes I think I am all-powerful. Like a wizard, I can make any of my wishes come true, if only I really want it very much.
Logic is very important for me. All my actions and thoughts obey to logic. Many people think in other categories – images, impulses, intuition. This is not for me. I try to build the logic of their actions for myself to understand them. The funniest thing is that my husband is one of these people.
I am for parity and justice. But sometimes life puts us in such absurd situations where we have to choose between these two concepts. This is the hardest choice for me.
Armenia is my all! I live and breathe with Armenia though I have lived abroad for the last 24 years. I can’t be fully happy unless Armenia is prospering.
Charity is not a way of life or a whim. Charity is just a small effort to restore the damaged divine world order. Our world is not perfect. And the reason of this is the humans. We cannot stay indifferent.
When engaged in charity, you feel your powerlessness the sharpest. The hardest thing is having to make a choice when you have limited resources. The thought – “Have I done the right choice?”- is always torturing you. And there is no answer to it.

Aram Ter-Hakobyan
Entrepreneur,

Aram Ter-Hakobyan
Entrepreneur,
I love life and try to get maximum of it!
I live for today, as you never know what tomorrow will bring. I love spending time with my friends and family.
I value honesty and justice in people.
The 90s forced many people leave their homeland in search of better life. I have lived in Moscow since 1993. I went to school and university here. I studied and worked at the same time. In my heart I have always been with my motherland and always tried to help my friends and relatives whenever possible.
I have always wanted to do something global for Armenia.
After the four-day war of April 2016, with a group of friends we started to intensively help Armenia and Artsakh. Our group of like-minded people, ready to help homeland, continued to grow, and soon the idea of founding VIVA was born.
VIVA is my second family. I cannot imagine my life without VIVA. We all do our best to find time, means and strengths to do something good for our motherland despite our incredibly busy schedule. We all love Armenia and want to see it strong and flourishing.

Anoush Markosyan
Head of International Business Development Department at a large retail company

Anoush Markosyan
Head of International Business Development Department at a large retail company
I feel bad for having to live out of Armenia. VIVA helps me feel better. Armenia has its special and very important place in my international family!
I love my job. I like the feeling when you do what you love and you strive for results.
I am panicky afraid of the 40th anniversary … Fortunately, my husband is not, or at least pretends no to be. But it helps. I think, I need to change my comfort zone by that time. It might help.
How would I describe myself? Well, I start each Monday with a diet! I am a pacifist, an agnostic, a shopaholic, an atypical Mom and wife. I try to be friends with my kids and a forever- surprising wife.

Albert Hovsepyan
I had always been wary of charitable organizations until I met VIVA.
With VIVA I got the opportunity to show targeted support. I believe that most Armenians living abroad feel the need to be useful to our Motherland. For me it is really important to see the result.
The very idea of helping without pursuing any personal interests is fundamental in charity.
The VIVA team is united and dedicated to the common cause, which helps us achieve results.

Arutyunova Anna
Всю жизнь в поисках себя. И совсем недавно кажется поняла, что мне доставляет удовлетворение и радость в жизни… помогать тем, кто нуждается в помощи и быть благодарной за то что позволили помочь! Спасибо ВИВА!!
Yerevan Headquarter

Astkhik Martirosyan
Head of Headquarter
Doctor, specializes in public healthcare, organizing health service and medical education, PhD in Medicine For me VIVA is people who do acts of kindness, believe in people and future, fight for justice and want to make this world a little bit better.

Hasmik Shamamyan
Headquarter Coordinator
I met people from the Fund by the stroke of luck and got infected with their enthusiasm. VIVA Charity Fund has become that home for me, where I feel comfortable and can fulfill my desire to be useful in organizing help for people in need.
Central Headquarter Moscow

Armine Petrosyan
Volunteer and mentor (educational programme)

Julia Grigoryan
SMM

Julia Grigoryan
SMM
I’m a wife and mother of two sons. I was born in Baku, where my grandparents in their young days moved from Artsax with my mother. In 1989 my family and I left for Ukraine because of the well-known developments. Since those times I try to find time for volunteering, support our homelanders and project supporting them wherever I am and whatever I do. My dream is to set up a Young entrepreneurs supporting programme. I believe that our power is in unity and creativity.

Narina Grigoryan
Mentor of the psychologic group

Маргарита Мадоян
Врач - Хирург

Маргарита Мадоян
Врач - Хирург
ВИВА-это не организация. ВИВА живая, у неё необьятная душа и бойкое, смелое сердце. Люди у нас настоящие, идейные! ВИВА - часть так необходимой нашему народу общенациональной идеи, которая позволяет созидать в любые времена.

Давит Саядян
Графический дизайнер, администратор сайта viva.foundation

Арут Габриелян
программист

Семён Сароян
координатор образовательной платформы

Otaryan Karine
Head of the prenatal screening room

Otaryan Karine
Head of the prenatal screening room
Head of the prenatal screening room of the Moscow Clinical Hospital after Demikhov.
Has over 15 years of practice in ultrasound diagnostics. Author of 11 scientific publications.
Education:
1998 Moscow Medical Academy after Sechenov.
2000 Completed residency at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology No. 1 of the Moscow Medical Academy after Sechenov.
Experience:
2000 – 2008 Worked as a doctor of ultrasound diagnostics in the Perinatal Center of the Maternity Department at the Clinical Hospital No. 29 after Bauman.
2003 Completed an advanced training course in "Modern methods of ultrasound of vascular diseases" at the Moscow State Medical University after Sechenov.
2004 Completed an advanced training course in "Invasive methods of prenatal diagnosis" at the Institute of Federal Management
2005 Completed an advanced training course in “Topical issues of prenatal diagnostics. Echocardiography of the fetus. Doppler ultrasonography in obstetrics " at the Institute of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency.
2006 Was awarded the first qualification category in the specialty "Ultrasound diagnostics".
2007 Defended a Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Perinatal outcomes in the syndrome of a single umbilical artery" at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the RUDN University. Participated in conferences sponsored by The Fetal Medicine Foundation ISUOG.
2011 Completed an advanced training in genetics on the basis of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.
2012 Was awarded the highest qualification category in the specialty "Ultrasound diagnostics".