ARMENIA RATED 137 AMONG COUNTRIES WITH FREE MEDIA
New York-based media freedom monitoring Freedom House released its annual report on freedom of mass media in the world. According to the report, most serious drawbacks in media freedom in 2005 were registered in Russia, Uzbekistan and a number of African and Asian countries. A country is rated based on 3 factor groups: legislation on mass media, political factors including state supervision over media, censorship and economic situation, for instance, economic freedom of media, degree of corruption among journalists.
So, from among 194 rated states 73 have "free" mass media, 54 "partially free" and 67 "not free". The report placed USA 17 together with Estonia. Latvia is on the 26th place, Lithuania on 31st, Ukraine on 113d, Georgia 118th, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan on 137th, Moldova on 141st, Russia on 158th, Azerbaijan on 161st, Kazakhstan on 165th, Tajikistan on 167th, Belarus on 185th, Uzbekistan on 187th and Turkmenistan on 190th.
GETASHEN WAS THE BEGINNING OF UNDECLARED WAR
By Kim Gabrielian in StepanakertThese very days 15 years ago the forced eviction of Armenian population in Getashen (northern Nagorno Karabakh) began. Supported by the Soviet Army, Azerbaijani OMON (Special Purpose Detachment of Militsiya) ...KOULAGIN ACCUSED OF ABRAHAMIANTS’ MURDER IS RELEASED
By Nana PetrosianThe parents of 17 years old Vigen Abrahamiants, Moscow resident, who was killed recently, do not believe that Denis Koulagin was the murderer of their son. The law enforcement bodies released 16 years ...ARMENIA RATED 137 AMONG COUNTRIES WITH FREE MEDIA
New York-based media freedom monitoring Freedom House released its annual report on freedom of mass media in the world. According to the report, most serious drawbacks in media freedom in 2005 were registered ...
FEDS SAY RUSSIAN/ARMENIAN MOB’S FRAUD RING BUSTED
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By Gohar GevorgianMEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED BETWEEN THE ARMENIAN CHURCH AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
HORRIFYING PHOTOS IN MOSCOW
By Ruben Hayrapetian in MoscowHISTORIC GRAVEYARD IS VICTIM OF WAR
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- 1219 Death of Armenian King Levon the Second (Kingdom of Cilicia).
- 1817 General Yermolov, Commander of the Caucasian forces and Governor of the Caucasus, stops in Echmiadsin on his way to a mission in Persia.
- 1869 Death of the Armenologist Victor Langlois. He translated Armenian historical sources into French under the sponsorship of Noobar Pasha.
- 1900 Death of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He was born in 1817.
- 1916 The "France-Armenie" committee is organized in Paris. Members of the Academy and other political figures are members.
- 1917 The First Assembly of Western Armenians opens in Yerevan under the Presidency of General Andranik.
- 1919 The Publication of Constantinople's Extraordinary Military Tribunal's decision about the perpetrators of the deportations of Booyook Dere's (Constantinople's district) Armenian population.
- 1930 Creation of the Kanaker Power Station.
- 1965 Death of Hrachia Kochar (writer and public figure). He was born in 1909.
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