Armenia and the information war

[Federate]

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Dashnaks should not be needing to protest to remove such a thing, that thing should not even be thought of putting there in the first place.
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Young Dashnaks urge Yerevan’s mayor to remove outward commercial on holiday in Turkey
07 July 2009 [14:24] - Today.Az

Young representatives of Dashnaksutyun political organization appealed to Yerevan mayor Gagik Baglaryan to remove outward advertisement about holiday vacation in Turkey.

Young representatives said the mayor promised to deal with outward advertisement during the election.

The organization members urged Beglaryan to take immediate measures to remove the afore-said advertisement.

/ARMENIA Today/

URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/53581.html

[Federate]

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Leader of Azerbaijani community in Lithuania: Lithuanians sharply changed attitude to Armenia


07 July 2009 [13:37] - Today.Az
Leader of Azerbaijani community in Lithuania and member of National Minorities’ Council at the Lithuanian government Mahir Hamzayev says Lithuanians have sharply changed attitude to Armenia.

“Since the foundation of our community in 1988, we tried to establish business relationship with the media in Lithuania, independent news agencies including the media of Latvia and Estonia,” Hamzayev said.

“We gave them interviews, wrote reviews and were involved in short films about the history of Azerbaijan, about our cultural heritage and national holidays. Thus we tried to convey true information about our motherland and the Karabakh conflict to the peoples of the Baltic countries,” he said.

“In 1992-1993, we organized a trip of journalists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Karabakh front. They visited Agdam and Nakchivan.”

“Incidentally, the new essay by journalist Imantas Melyanasa also used articles, reports by Lithuanian authors, who visited Azerbaijan with our help in the early 90's. Then, with the support of our community, they were published in the Lithuanian media,” he said.

“They brought with them compelling materials that prove these heinous crimes. They submitted them for examination in the Ministry of Health of Lithuania, which then confirmed the presence of chemical weapons. I can say that dozens of articleson this subject have been published during the years of independence in Lithuania.”

“At the turn of 1980-1990 years here in the Baltic countries they were trying to tell the public that the conflict in Karabakh is a religious war - Islam and Christianity. Now all this is already ridiculous, but then a number of political forces in Lithuania, some of which are, incidentally, are those in opposition but who is in power supported the separatist of Nagorno-Karabakh, the committee of Karabakh and Armenia itself,” he added.

“In meantime, we established a Congress of Azerbaijanis within Baltic Congress of Azerbaijanis of Europe, because we can win the only micro fights against the Armenians, not a media war without coordination from a single center. Therefore, we need a close contact with relevant government and government agencies of Azerbaijan, with NGOs and the media. By the way, again with the help of our community, the Lithuanian political scientists, journalists and historians have written feedback and reviews on the essay by Melyanasa. Some of them have already been published in the popular local online newspapers,” he said.


“Lithuanians see the news and watch our movies on local TV. In recent years, the change in attitude to us is dictated by several aspects of activities of the Azerbaijan Republic,” he said.

“Perhaps, many have noticed that Lithuania gave a lot of votes for the representatives of Azerbaijan in contest Eurovision-2009 song contest. Lithuanians are also interested in a balanced policy of Azerbaijan towards U.S. and Russia.”

“The attitudes towards Armenia have sharply changed. Lithuanians became aware of the pro-Russian policy by Yerevan and local political, academic and student circles have negative attitude to it. Lithuanians, in fact, support cooperation of Azerbaijan with NATO New Neighborhood Program and want to be actively involved in these processes,” he said.

Day.Az

URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/53577.html

[KarotheGreat]

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Dashnaks should not be needing to protest to remove such a thing, that thing should not even be thought of putting there in the first place.
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Young Dashnaks urge Yerevan’s mayor to remove outward commercial on holiday in Turkey
07 July 2009 [14:24] - Today.Az

Young representatives of Dashnaksutyun political organization appealed to Yerevan mayor Gagik Baglaryan to remove outward advertisement about holiday vacation in Turkey.

Young representatives said the mayor promised to deal with outward advertisement during the election.

The organization members urged Beglaryan to take immediate measures to remove the afore-said advertisement.

/ARMENIA Today/

URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/53581.html

Federate can you get me an Armenian source on that and do you maybe know were the advertisement was?

[Federate]

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Federate can you get me an Armenian source on that and do you maybe know were the advertisement was?

Here you go Karo jan, I apologise for the late reply. I remembered I had read it somewhere but forgot where it was so I had to dig a lot. Shat amot eh.
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Prime minister limits vacations for top officials


Yerevan - A billboard on Baghramian Avenue in Yerevan advertises vacations in Turkey. Since the photograph was taken on May 29, the word Turkey has been replaced with Antalya (written in Armenian), the seaside resort town in southwestern Turkey. Prime Minister Andranik Margarian (2000-2007) had banned high officials from vacationing in Turkey. Now Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has instructed ministers to take only short vacations and to take them in Armenia.

http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-06-20-prime-minister-limits-vacations-for-top-officials

[Federate]

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Armenia must overcome xenophobia and Armenophobia
09.07.2009 17:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia should counteract to all kinds of manifestations of xenophobia, particularly Armenophobia, Karen Vrtanesyan, member of “Initiative against Xenophobia” organization and Director of ArmenianHouse.org electronic library told journalists today. To that end, the organization intends to first of all start cooperation with similar international organization and establish contacts with RA Foreign Ministry.

Over the recent years, manifestations of xenophobia were often observed not only in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Russia, but also in United States, Karen Vrtanesyan said, referring to the Armenian individual’s brutal murder in RF, as well as American radio reporter’s recent statement containing hints of Armenophobia.

To prevent such phenomena, the organization intends to conduct permanent monitoring and analysis so as to hold culprits accountable and organize civic pressure actions.

Karen Vrtanesyan focused on Azeri MP Ganira Pashseva’s recent statement. During the PACE session held in Strasburg, Azeri parliamentarian accused Armenian delegation of numerous crimes and stressed that such manifestations should necessarily have their consequences for Azerbaijan. In that connection, “Initiative against Xenophobia” intends to apply to RA Foreign Ministry in anticipation of getting relevant response.

Answering journalists’ questions concerning funding sources, Vrtanesyan said that anti-Armenian propaganda was funded on the highest level, and unlike Armenia, individual entrepreneurs were also involved in the process. Nevertheless, participants of the initiative are determined about their further plans.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=34151

[Federate]

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Tsvetana Paskaleva: Armenians, with all the evidence, at a disadvantage in propaganda war

09.07.2009 17:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Three times the Azerbaijani authorities sentenced to death the Bulgarian journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva for her coverage of the Karabakh war. She believes that, unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan carries out a consistent, well-organized propaganda war and has victories on this front.

"With a strong historical and legal proof of its righteousness, the Armenian side has not implemented the required work in the field of propaganda, and has not even provided basic information. From this perspective, the Armenian side is visibly losing its way. The world community does not seek to touch bottom and take ready information, which is mainly provided by the Azerbaijani side, forgetting, as a rule, the historical truth and distorting the facts," Tsvetana Paskaleva stressed.

7 films about the Karabakh war Paskaleva shot are stored in long-obsolete VHS format, though they could be successfully used to inform the world public.

"I do not understand the reason of such a situation, maybe someone should ask me for my films to educate and advocate, but to date, nobody did," Tsvetana Paskaleva told a news conference in Yerevan today.

Tsvetana Paskaleva is a well-known Bulgarian journalist, director, scenario writer. film operator and member of the International Documentary Association (Los Angeles). Since May 1991, she has shot documentaries about the interethnic conflicts between Armenians and Azeris. The following 7 films are devoted to Karabakh: “Altitudes, Hopes” (1991), “Will Morning Smile upon Karabakh?” (1992), “My Dear Living and Dead” (1993), “The Wounds of Karabakh” (1994), “Soldiers of Their Land” (1994), “Calmness” (1995), “Belief and Spirit” (devoted to the liberation of Shushi, 2001). Beginning 1995, Paskaleva worked in Armenian television as a director; she hosted “My Dear Living and Dead” Russian language broadcast about Karabakh. The broadcast was closed down in 1997, by the order of the then President Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Since 1998, Tsvetana Paskaleva started running “Aspect” TV broadcast which was closed down in 2000.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=34146

[hipeter924]

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Another person dies for human rights. But sometimes we have to pay a price for truth, and she died for a good cause. It's just so horrible that she had to die at all though. No one should have to die for saying their beliefs or ideas about the world. But as usual in places like Turkey and Azerbaijan the right of freedom of expression hardly exists.

[ninetoyadome]

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Another person dies for human rights. But sometimes we have to pay a price for truth, and she died for a good cause. It's just so horrible that she had to die at all though. No one should have to die for saying their beliefs or ideas about the world. But as usual in places like Turkey and Azerbaijan the right of freedom of expression hardly exists.

i dont think shes dead. it says the azeris sentenced her to death three times but it doesnt say anything about her dying. the funny thing is aliyev talks about freedom of speech in azerbaijan and then this happens. just like you said turkey and azerbaijan have no freedom of speech, expression, etc. see how oil talks. people dont see these atrocities, all they see is oil.

[hipeter924]

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i dont think shes dead. it says the azeris sentenced her to death three times but it doesnt say anything about her dying. the funny thing is aliyev talks about freedom of speech in azerbaijan and then this happens. just like you said turkey and azerbaijan have no freedom of speech, expression, etc. see how oil talks. people dont see these atrocities, all they see is oil.

That is how great powers work. People ignore the genocide in Darfur for the same reason...resources and money.

[ninetoyadome]

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That is how great powers work. People ignore the genocide in Darfur for the same reason...resources and money.

its a sick world where oil is more valuable than human life. look at azerbaijan. they attacked Armenia during the war and no country condemned there actions, no one condemned the massacres they committed because they need oil. watch once the oil runs out everyone will join Armenia's side. The OSCE Minsk group will tell azerbaijan that Artsakh belongs to Armenia and has historically been part of Armenia. thats why Armenia is stalling the peace process until the oil runs out. Its funny i found a map of the Roman Empire in 188 BC and the map clearly shows Greater Armenia to the north of the Araxes river with no country called azerbaijan. the map shows Artsakh and nakichevan as part of Armenia and the azeris just cant accept this simple fact. they think they have oil so they can do whatever they want, if they want land they can take it.