Armenia and the information war

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Today.Az » Politics » Armenians learn to fly!

09 December 2009 [11:22] - Today.Az



It is absolutely obvious that Armenians launched media attacks. But the purpose is still unknown.

The Armenian media attack in 1988-1994 was understandable. It was necessary to shape public opinion in the Soviet Union. Media support is necessary during the war, too. It is necessary before summits or any session, no doubt.

But why now? There is no session anywhere. Such attacks do not impact the course of talks at all.

So, what happened then?

I think it is ultimately a banal split of finances, which they collected during the marathon under the motto “restoration of Shusha.”

The things are clear with Euronews. Unpleasant and lousy, but only a naive person can say that the televised report could in anyway impact the European community’s frame of mind. There are thousands of television channels in Europe, the PACE and the CE long ago made their decisions – and not in Armenian’s favor. So the effect is almost zero.

Ukrainian channel? I hardly believe anyone in Ukraine paid serious attention to the televised report on the backdrop of the thriller “How Yulya* Competes with Vitya**.” What’s use if Ukrainians believed the pro-Armenian televised report? Although Ukrainians are smart and wise enough, they themselves watch reports on Russian channels when many Russians deny the existence of Ukraine, and regard the country simply as a “misunderstanding.” Furthermore, would we believe if our local televisions channels broadcast reports stating that Crimea and Donetsk are Russian lands? Even if we believe, it doesn't change anything? So, there is a discrepancy.

A split of funds seems more realistic.

I don’t rule out that Finnish radio stations, Albanian news portal, and Udmurt television will say something like these ravings. Sargsyan in his turn will issue a report saying we gave 2 million to Udmurts, three million to Finns, four million to Euronews, one million to Ukraine and showed the world that Karabakh belongs us.

They act in line with the principle “play dirty tricks and report.” How much did they collect? Some 15 million? OK, we will spend 1 million and put into our pockets the next 14 million.

Now unhealthy glitter appeared on eyes of Nalbandyan, who reminds me very much of a well-worn, but intelligent restaurant musician. This glitter which can be observed on Armenian clarinettists while they stop playing on the very height of dancing in the hope of extra pay. Judging from the ongoing PR campaign, one can be suspect of its motives.

Indeed, it all is unpleasant for us, emotional as a rule. They ought to receive a symmetrical reply along with the expected consequences.

This time, every day during the next television marathon Sargsyan and Nalbandyan would perorate just to receive money, but also demonstrate synchronized swimming to entertain the diaspora.

*Yulya – Yulya Timosheko, the Ukrainian Parliamentary Speaker
** Vitya- Viktor Yuschenko, the president of Ukraine

By Anar Mammadkhanov, Azerbaijani MP

URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/58050.html

the Sushi restoration was propaganda. Its funny how they talk about corruption

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Artak Nersisyan: Baku continues ostrich policy
14:19 / 12/09/2009


“Azerbaijan’s foreign policy is showing an interesting tendency. The Azerbaijani authorities must have decided to resort to various ways of lodging complaints about foreign TV companies, trying to impose their only style of work on them,” the Nagorno-Karabakh political analyst Artak Nersisyan said.

“Baku does not seem to understand that mass media in civilized countries need interesting news, not oil – interesting news from, as Peter Barabas, Euronews Editor-in-Chief, said in his interview with Day.az, hard-to-reach sources. The cause for the hard-to-get trustworthy information on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and especially on the life of ordinary people is the flow of false information reported by Azerbaijan, which is thereby trying to deprive the international community of reliable information on Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani authorities are afraid that foreign mass media will expose their hypocritical policy and, at the same time, satisfy the ordinary Azerbaijani citizens’ desire to be accurately informed the situation in the NKR,” Nersisyan said.

Seeing that their complains do not produce any results, official Baku threatened the TV channels with invalidating their accreditation and are now carrying out their threats.

“Particularly, Azerbaijan has implemented this policy toward the NTV Channel, which is operating in Turkey, Azerbaijan’s ‘big brother’. If this policy continues, Azerbaijan’s population will soon have to watch only local TV channels, with their programs full of lie about centuries-old history of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh being a historical part of Azerbaijan, and so on. Ordinary citizens are sick and tired of hearing all this. The Azerbaijani authorities, however, do not at all seem to be concerned over that, as they have been pursuing what is known as ostrich policy for a long time,” Nesisyan said.

T.P.

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Azerbaijan continues information war against Euronews
15.12.2009 16:22 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijanis continue protests in connection with a Euronews “Nagorno-Karabakh – the wind of change” TV report, during which the journalist called Karabakh the original Armenian land.

The Azerbaijani Press Council joined the protests.

The peculiarity of the scandal is that lacking its own information tools in Europe, Azerbaijan has long used Euronews services to advertise tour trips to the country, abc.az reported.

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Azeri media persist in disseminating disinformation
21.12.2009 20:40 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azeri media persist in disseminating misinformation. First, an Armenian woman aged about 50 was reported to have crossed the contact line in Aghdam direction.

“Crossing the line, the woman approached Azerbaijan’s armed positions. That was followed by violation of ceasefire regime, and the woman was shot dead,” Azeri media reported, accusing Karabakh of the woman’s death.

Such information was refuted by Senor Asatryan, Head of NKR Defense Army’s press service.

Later reports came to reveal that the murdered woman was Azeri citizen Sadaget Pasha-gazi Mamedova who left her home two days ago and never returned.

azeris reported that an Armenian woman crossed the contact line so they shot her, now they are reporting that it was an azeri woman and the Armenians shot her.

WOMAN KILLED ON THE KARABAKH-AZERBAIJAN CONTACT LINE 'HAS TURNED' FROM 'ARMENIAN' INTO 'AZERBAIJANI'

ArmInfo
2009-12-21 17:42:00

ArmInfo. The woman allegedly "killed" on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan
contact line on Dec 20 "has turned" from "Armenian" into "Azerbaijani".

The statement on the incident was published by APA agency Monday
morning. Though the source itself said that no documents were found
with the woman, nevertheless, it made a conclusion that the woman was
Armenian and became a victim of her intention to cross the Azerbaijani
border. To recall, the NKR Defense Ministry denied this version of
"developments".

Monday evening the same agency "specified" that the woman turned out
to be Azerbaijani. This was allegedly a resident of Aghdam region
Mammadova Sadagat Pasha, who "left her house two days ago and did not
come back. Mammadova was born in Khindiristan village and married to
the resident of Alibayli village. Mammadova has been recently divorced
and returned to the house of her daughter in Khindiristan.The village
residents say Mammadova suffered mental affection. They say the woman
disappeared two days ago. It is being investigated how she crossed
the line of contact",- APA says.

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very good article, shows the true face of the azeris

Новый Регион – Скандалы и происшествия
Публикации за 21.12.09

Азербайджанские СМИ замечены в фальсификациях фотоматериалов (ФОТО)
Снимки из Грузии и Косово использованы как «доказательства армянской агрессии»
21.12.09 23:59

Москва – Баку, Декабрь 21 (Новый Регион, Марат Бубновский) – Средства массовой информации Азербайджана замечены в подлоге. По наблюдениям ряда блогеров, бакинская пресса использует, причем не в первый раз, фотоматериалы из разных стран для «доказательства фактов армянской агрессии». Как сообщает корреспондент «Нового Региона», пользователи ЖЖ за последние 3 месяца выявили уже три случая фальсификации со стороны масс медиа Азербайджана.
Так, автор Kornelij Glas обратил внимание на то, что бакинское информационное агентство «Тренд» опубликовало сообщение о завершении съемок документального фильма о нагорно-карабахском конфликте. Однако в качестве сопровождающей фотографии, на которые якобы изображены «жертвы армянской агрессии», был использован снимок, который на поверку оказался фотографией убитых жителей Косово и был взят с канадского франкоязычного сайта.


Скриншот с сайта бакинского агентства с фотографией «жертв армянской агрессии»


На самом деле фотография сделана в Косово
В свою очередь, пользователь UrArtur обратил внимание на то, что в информационном сообщении другого азербайджанского агентства – «Вести.аз» – в качестве фотографии к новости о том, что на границе Нагорно-Карабахской Республики и Азербайджана в результате перестрелки погибла мирная жительница, использован снимок, сделанный еще в августе 2008 года в ходе войны в Южной Осетии.


«Убитая армянами азербайджанка»...


...на деле оказалась грузинкой
Между тем, Kornelij Glas напоминает, что «грузинский след» в материалах азербайджанских СМИ был выявлен еще в сентябре 2009 года. Тогда в Баку написали о том, будто Армия обороны Нагорного Карабаха атаковала азербайджанские позиции и потеряла несколько человек убитыми. В качестве «доказательства» была размещена фотография «армянского солдата», который оказался грузинским солдатом, убитым в том же августе 2008 года. Впоследствии фальшивка была убрана с бакинского сайта.


Убитый грузинский солдат, которого СМИ Азербайджана пытались выдать за армянского
© 2009, NR2.Ru, «Новый Регион», 2.0


in short the article says how the azeris used pictures from the Kosovo War and the Russia-Georgian War pretending the dead were azeris. these people have no shame whatsoever. They are

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Azerbaijani media again lost its way in broad daylight: Stepanakert

19:24 / 12/24/2009

Information department of Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry commented on the December 20, 2009 incident on the NKR-Azerbaijan armed forces’ contact line. The official statement reads:

“The Azerbaijani mass media have once again lost their way in broad daylight, trying to depict the Karabakh party in an unfavorable light. During a day, the woman, who was killed on December 20, 2009 on the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line first by an ‘Armenian’ serviceman, then, as it was found out, by an Azerbaijani soldier, turned from an ‘Armenian woman’ into an Azerbaijani one. Moreover, a photo of a Georgian woman made in August 2008 during the war in South Ossetia was attached to the information.

The Azerbaijani mass media have practiced forgeries in their anti-Armenian propaganda for a long time. This was fixed not only by the Karabakh party. The Moscow edition New Region notes that the Azerbaijani mass media have, at least, three times used forgeries for the last three months, applying photo materials of various countries for ‘proving the facts of the Armenian aggression’. Besides the abovementioned forgery of the Azerbaijani Agency Vesti.az related to the killed woman, the edition notes as an example the distribution of a photo of a Georgian soldier killed in August 2008 ‘to confirm’ the Karabakh party’s losses allegedly taken place as a result of the NKR Defense Army units’ attacking the Azerbaijani positions. In fact, everything was exactly the contrary.

Besides, the Russian edition unmasked Trend Azerbaijani information agency, which had informed of the completion of a documentary about the Karabakh conflict, attaching a photo of alleged ‘victims of the Armenian aggression’, which, in fact, turned out to be a photo of deceased citizens of Kosovo taken from a Canadian francophone website.

This forgery related to the tragic events in Khojaly and placed at some Azerbaijani websites, including the one of the basic anti-Armenian misinformation center of the Heydar Aliyev Fund (www.azerbaijan.az), the leader of which is the Azerbaijani President's wife, was earlier disclosed by the NKR Foreign Ministry.

We have to state once more that against the background of the proceeding meetings of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents and the optimistic statements of the international mediators on certain progress in the Karabakh conflict settlement process, official Baku and its improvised mass media continue their aggressive information war against the RA and NKR, using all the means for introducing the Armenian parties as the misdeeds’ actors and for injecting a new portion of Armenian-hatred poison into the international community's and their own people's mind.

Unfortunately, this destructive policy of official Baku isn't properly assessed by corresponding international structures, which is fraught with nullifying the multiyear peacemaking efforts.

&‘Democratic’ Azerbaijan ‘integrating’ into the West and its ‘independent’ mass media should finally realize that freedom of speech is not freedom of misinformation.

We hope that in the coming year, the international community will take the counterproductive actions of the Azerbaijani authorities more seriously.”

http://news.am/en/news/11274.html

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As always the Azerbaijanis are falsifying

Recently the recurrent Azerbaijani “movie” about Khojaly appeared in the Internet. Here the “hospitable and peaceful” Azerbaijanis are telling about the “tragedy” of Khojaly. In this recurrent Azerbaijani “movie”, which is based on obvious falsehood, there are several distorted facts and untrue information. The quotations from Zori Balayan’s book are obscene lies. Some months ago Zori Balayan himself made an announcement about this, stating that he has never written a book like that.
It is stated in the “movie” that the residents, who had fled from Khojaly, were shot near the Armenian Nakhijevanik village. This fact also does not meet the reality, because in February, 1992 the village of Nakhijevanik, which is situated around Aghdam, was not under the Armenian Armed Forces. The “movie” ends with a touching, heart-breaking music and with the photos of these so called victims and witnesses of the occurrence. It takes only 1-2 minutes to learn that one is a photo of a wounded Armenian child, which has been published in the 5th of December, 1991 issue of the “Комсомолец Кузбаса” (“Komsomolets Kuzbasa”) newspaper. And the article was titled “Долгая дорога в Эркеч” (“The long way to Erkech”). The electronic version of the abovementioned article can be found on the following website: http://www.press.karabakh.info.
It only remains to advise the staff of the Azerbaijani agitprop to be more attentive and make such falsifications, which are not so obvious and so easy-to-uncover.

RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs
Mil.am

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Azerbaijani TV broadcasts in Armenia
25.12.2009 12:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan has launched ATV International, which will broadcast in Armenian, Farsi, English and Russian. The channel will focus on the history and culture of Azerbaijan as well as on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. News digests will be broadcast twice a day, 12-15 minutes in each language, Bakililar.AZ reported.

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RA Defense Ministry gives the lie to Azeri agitprop
26.12.2009 13:26 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan has set online another ‘documentary’ about Khojaly, where “hospitable and peace-loving Azeris tell about the tragedy which took place.”

The so-called documentary is full of lies and falsifications, the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

“The ‘documentary’ shows that the residents who fled Khojaly were shelled at the Armenian village of Nakhijevank. But the fact is that Nakhijevank which is situated not far from Aghdam was not under control of Armenian forces in February 1992,” the Ministry said. “The ‘documentary’ ends with a stirring tune and slide of photographs of alleged victims and witnesses. Actually, one of the photographs features an injured Armenian child. This photograph was published in Komsomolets Kuzbassa newspaper of December 5, 1991 relating to an article titled “Long way to Erkej.”

“We can nothing but advise the Azeri propaganda machine to be more careful and fake up facts more professionally,” the Ministry said.

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Azerbaijani TV broadcasts in Armenia
25.12.2009 12:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan has launched ATV International, which will broadcast in Armenian, Farsi, English and Russian. The channel will focus on the history and culture of Azerbaijan as well as on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. News digests will be broadcast twice a day, 12-15 minutes in each language, Bakililar.AZ reported.

So Azeri's are broadcasting "the war of the worlds", the aliens are coming!