Armenia Losing its Printed Press Day by Day

Armenia still has unsolved problems in freedom of speech, said RA Presidential Staff Public Relations and Information Department Chair and IT specialist Ara Saghatelyan at a press conference today.

“I see a very serious problem and I do not see its solution: that is our printed press. All of us, as citizens, specialists, are facing very serious problems in terms of freedom of speech: we are losing the printed press day by day,” said he.

Saghatelyan also said that “we as a society will suffer very seriously,” should there not be resources to take the printed press to a new level.

“In Azerbaijan, they found a solution: a fund was created to support media outlets, and they started, to put it roughly, buying them [media outlets]. I hope we will never take that route. The drop in the number of printed copies of our papers is a very serious problem,” said the specialist.