Parliament speaker: Armenian media serve interests of ex-presidents

Armenia’s Speaker of Parliament, Alen Simonyan, has accused several Armenian media outlets of acting as “classical propagandists” and serving the political interests of former presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan.

In a video address, Simonyan said the editors he had previously called out had failed to respond to his proposal for open discussion and now avoided asking him questions during live broadcasts, Caliber.Az reports via Armenian media.

“These people no longer exist as journalists and editors. They have turned into classical propagandists,” he said.

“They cannot and will not be able to sell their newspapers or generate traffic for their websites. 

They can only serve the interests of certain groups — those of Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan — taking money and other benefits from them to sustain themselves.”

Simonyan added that, in his view, these media figures had effectively disappeared from the information space and that no revolution — including those of 2018 or even a hypothetical one in 2328 — would “liberate” them from what he described as propagandistic activity.

By Aghakazim Guliyev