the armenian revolutionary federation (arf or հյդ) (armenian: – hay heghapokhakan dashnaktsutiun, dashnaktsutiun, – dashnak or tashnag) is an armenian political party founded in tiflis (tbilisi in modern-day georgia) in 1890 by christapor mikaelian, stepan zorian, and simon zavarian. the party works in armenia and in countries where the armenian diaspora is active, notably in lebanon and the ethnically armenian-dominated de facto republic of nagorno-karabakh.