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Before The Campaign: What "News" Kept Quiet • media.am

The official pre-election campaign for the National Assembly elections in Armenia began on May 8. However, many parties had already begun their political activities, engaging with citizens in Yerevan and the regions to discuss their programs.
One of these parties is the Civil Contract, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who announced the start of an intra-party campaign on February 28.
It is worth mentioning that, unlike the official campaign period, the media’s coverage of political activit...
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Political Narratives On YouTube: What Disint.ai Unveiled • media.am

From the very beginning of 2026, Armenia’s public and political agenda began to take shape around pre-election topics.
During this time, YouTube and other social networks have evolved into platforms for complex, multi-layered political debates that can significantly influence public opinion. With this in mind, we studied the content on the platform as well as the comments associated with it.
This study focuses on the YouTube channels of several Armenian media outlets. We recognise that news cont...
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"Goodbye, Armenia": The Armenian-Russian Relations Crisis on Telegram • media.am

In the winter of 2025, amid recent tensions in Armenian-Russian relations, Armenia made two significant moves towards European integration and strengthening its ties with the United States.
On January 9, the government approved a draft law titled ”On the Initiation of the Process of Accession of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union” which the National Assembly adopted in March. Additionally, on January 15, Armenia and the United States signed the strategic Partnership Charter, which est...
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Armenian-Turkish Relations: Recent Developments And Diplomatic Engagements • media.am

The new normalization phase in Armenian-Turkish relations commenced at the end of 2021, marked by both countries’ announcements of their readiness to take steps in that direction.
Two telephone conversations took place during this month. On June 18, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and today, June 25, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan spoke with his Turkish counterpart.
 The fact-checking team at Media.am, “Verified,” reported that even th...
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Propaganda Theses and Disinformation about Possible Nuclear War - FIP.AM

Immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, official Moscow threatened to use nuclear weapons at the highest level as well as through Kremlin propagandists.
The situation worsened even more in September 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech about seizing four regions of Ukraine, during which he declared that Russia is ready to use all possible means at its disposal to defend the country’s security.
“Our country also has various means of destruction with some components more mo...
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“Operation Z”. How media propaganda represented Armenia as Russia’s supporter

This article was produced in the framework of the "Unprejudiced" project with the support of the Eastern Partnership Programme and the German Federal Foreign Office in autumn 2022.
Author: Lusine Voskanyan

Armenia’s official and non-official view on the Russian invasion of Ukraine was influenced by its own complicated relationship with Russia. Russia controls the country’s strategic infrastructures such as gas distribution and railways. In addition to it, a Russian military base is located i...
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"60 minutes" propaganda on the Russian state channel - FIP.AM

The hostilities launched by Russia with the invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than two months.
Fact Investigation Platform follows the false news and propaganda theses that have appeared in the media during the war. Last week, we examined the Russian state television channel “Rossia” which broadcasts “60 Minutes” program twice every working day.
The main topics in the April 25-29 broadcast were the alleged assassination attempt on well-known TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, the scand...

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Home is where we are together. The story of Ukrainian and Armenian queer couple

Armen and Volodymyr have been living on one of Yerevan’s oldest streets for more than a year. A four-year-long relationship between them had to endure an emotional rollercoaster due to the wars in Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine. As the end of political turmoil is yet to come in both Armenia and Ukraine, the queer couple has learned to live without attaching their life to the territory, but rather to each other.

Armen and Volodymyr have been living on one of Yerevan’s oldest streets for more than...
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Armenian women buck tradition, embrace solo life

Photos by Avetis Avetisyan When journalist Angela Poghosyan (25) decided to rent an apartment in capital Yerevan, her hometown, she expected some challenges: rent, bad neighbors, a guilt trip from her relatives.
She did not expect, however, “morality” questions from her landlord.






Simonyan,32, has been living on her own in Yerevan for many years. She recalls landladies in the past—usually divorced or the spouse of a long-departed migrant worker—giving her...

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The Data of the Casualties of the 44-Day War by Communities: Infographics - FIP.AM

On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan unleashed a large-scale military aggression against the Republic of Artsakh.
The 44-day war ended on November 9 with a tripartite statement by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On January 19, 2022, the Investigative Committee reported that the total number of servicemen and civilians killed in the Artsakh Republic and RA as a result of the war is 3,809. At that moment, the location o...
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Subvention Schemes in Armenia: Relatives of Community Leaders are Competition Winners

In 2020, the Armenian government approved 580 subvention schemes, for which tenders were issued to carry out work. As was the case previously, the companies who won the competition this time around were also not random.
The government allocated 14,310,000,000 drams from the state budget for the implementation of subvention schemes. The amount of community co-financing was 11,069,000,000 drams, while the amount from other organizations and private investments was 742,000,000 drams.
The Hetq Med...
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The mayor of Goris is abusing administrative levers before the elections - FIP.AM

The head of Goris community, parliamentary candidate Arush Arushanyan significantly increased the financial assistance provided to the residents before the snap parliamentary elections.
The mayor is a member of the board of the “Reviving Armenia” party created by the former governor of Syunik Vahe Hakobyan. The party joined the “Armenia” bloc led by the second president Robert Kocharyan in May 2021. Arushanyan is the 32nd in the list of candidates of the bloc.
It should be noted that on March 18...
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Multi-million animation of the Sahakyants - FIP.AM

Animator David Sahakyants earlier this year complained that the state had stopped funding the animated film “Olympionic” created by Robert Sahakyants Animation Studio.
In an interview with Channel 5, David Sahakyants particularly noted: “50 million a year was allocated. This year we even lowered the bar and applied for at least 30 million drams so we could finish the film, however we have received no answer to that either.”
The Fact Investigation Platform decided find out on what grounds the sta...