Semyon Arkadyevich Bagdasarov (; born November 20, 1954, in Margilan, Uzbek SSR) is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He is a member of A Just Russia.
He has studied at the Military Institute of the Red Star and has learnt Dari. As a political analyst, he concentrates on Central Asian and Middle Eastern affairs.
In October 2015, amidst the Russian intervention in Syria, Bagdasarov, argued that the historical tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy in Syria made it a âÂÂholy landâ for Russians and âÂÂtheirâ land. Hence he stated that there was âÂÂno Orthodoxy or Russia without SyriaâÂÂ.
He is an ethnic Armenian.