On April 8 “Golos Armenii” newspaper apologized to its readers for their inability
to buy at many newspaper stalls the issue of April 6, since, “as the news vendors
explained, all the copies were bought out by unknown people in the morning”.
In the opinion of “Golos Armenii”, the reason of the action was the article
of its correspondent Ara Meliksetian “Human Resources as the Party Gold”, and
“its ‘heroes’ tried not to make it public”.
The article was dealing with numerous violations revealed at “Hayseismshin”
research institute. It said in particular that in late February the conclusion
of the inspection made by the Control Service of the RA President was sent to
RA Minister of Urban Development Aram Harutiunian, however, no measures were
taken. This idleness is explained in the story by the fact that the Minister
of Urban Development and the director of the research institute (ministerial
structure) are members of “Orinats Yerkir” party (Ed. note: the party is in
ruling coalition).
The incident was qualified by the newspaper as “information terrorism” and
in the issue of April 8 repeated the publication of the article “that hit the
target so well”. “Golos Armenii” expressed confidence that “the talk about the
content of the article and the disappearance of the issue will continue” and
a hope that “’Orinats Yerkir’ will not be rich enough to buy every print run
of ‘GA’”.
