On December 24, 2004, “Haikakan Zhamanak” daily published a report that on
December 23 the Chief Editor of the newspaper Nikol Pashinian addressed a letter
to the RA General Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepian. By this address the Chief Editor
petitioned the Prosecutor to institute criminal proceedings on the illegitimate
stoppage of power supply in the flat of “Haikakan Zhamanak” correspondent Avetis
Babajanian, who resides in Armavir. In the opinion of the newspaper, the reason
for the power supply interruption of the journalist’s flat was his article “Cold
and Dark Days of Armavir” (“Haikakan Zhamanak” of December 18). The publication
was critical of the activities of “Musaler”, the Armavir branch of “Electric
Networks of Armenia” CJSC. It told, in particular, about the periodical
power supply interruptions in dozens of villages of the region that started
after the appointment of the new director of “Musaler”. On December 23 the newspaper
noted that the power supply of Avetis Babajanian’s flat was interrupted on the
command of “Musaler” director.
As Avetis Babajanian informed YPC, the power supply of his flat was resumed
on December 24. The journalist also noted that criminal proceedings on the incident
were instituted basing on the letter of “Haikakan Zhamanak” Editor, which, as
he learned from unofficial sources, were stopped due to absence of corpus delicti.
