Golos Armenii

Golos Armenii (Russian: Голос Армении, "Voice of Armenia"), previously known as Kommunist («Коммунист», "[The] Communist"), is a Russian language newspaper published in Yerevan, Armenia.[1]

Golos Armenii
Cover of June 5, 2014, issue of Golos Armenii
Editor-in-chiefFlora Nashkharian
Founded1934
LanguageRussian language
HeadquartersYerevan
Circulation3,500 (as of early 2000s)
OCLC number22522583
Websitegolosarmenii.am

Soviet period

The newspaper was founded in 1934.[2] During the Soviet period it was a daily organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia and the Yerevan City Committee of the Communist Party.[1][3] In the 1940s and 1950s, Veniamin Andreevich Syrtsev served as editor of the newspaper.[4][5][6] As of 1972, it had a circulation of 45,000.[7]

Independent Armenia

Kommunist became Golos Armenii in August 1990.[8] As of 1991, it was still an organ of the Communist Party, and was issued six times a week. B. M. Mkrtchyan served as the editor during this period.[9] In the post-Soviet period, it became a thrice-weekly newspaper.[2] Flora Nashkharian took over as editor-in-chief in 1992.[10][11] Nashkharian worked at Kommunist since 1976, serving as its first deputy editor in the latter years.[10]

As of the mid-1990s, Golos Armenii had a circulation of about 5,000, twelve journalists employed and around twenty other staff members. It was strongly opposed to the presidency of Levon Ter-Petrossyan.[11][12] The newspaper was closed down by the government on May 11, 1995, in the midst of a dispute over rent of its editorial office. The closure was seen as a move to silence an opposition voice in the media.[13] Shamiram Aghabekian served as deputy editor of Golos Armenii for a period, before becoming the editor-in-chief of Respublika Armenia (the Russian version of the government gazette Hayastani Hanrapetutyun) in 1998.[14] In 1999, Golos Armenii claimed a circulation of 5,230. It was sold for around 100 Armenian dram per copy. The newspaper was printed in A2 format, with four pages.[15] As of the early 2000s, it was estimated to have a circulation of 3,500.[16] It was perceived as close to the government of Robert Kocharyan.[17]

See also

References
  1. Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian. The Impact of Soviet Policies in Armenia. Brill Archive. p. 239. GGKEY:59QW8S38UQ0.
  2. Taylor & Francis Group (2004). Europa World Year. Taylor & Francis. p. 566. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
  3. Library of Congress. European Affairs Division (1949). The European press today. The Library of Congress. p. 137.
  4. Political Handbook of the World. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1959. p. 200.
  5. Political Handbook and Atlas of the World. Harper & Row for the Council on Foreign Relations. 1948. p. 202.
  6. Who's who in the USSR. Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company. 1965. p. 833.
  7. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Коммунист (газета Армянской ССР)
  8. John Miller (1993). Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power. St. Martin's Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-333-54615-4.
  9. 1991 32nd (1 August 1991). EUROPA WORLD YRBK 1991 2V. Taylor & Francis. p. 2720.
  10. Yerevan Press Club. NAKHASHKARYAN Flora Archived 2007-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Yasha Lange (1997). Media in the CIS: a study of the political, legislative and socio-economic framework. The European Commission. p. 46.
  12. United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1996). Report on Armenia's presidential election of September 22, 1996, Yerevan. The Commission. p. 5.
  13. United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1995). Report on Armenia's parliamentary election and constitutional referendum: July 5, 1995, Yerevan, Armenia. The Commission. p. 11.
  14. Asbarez. "Newspaper Staff Disappointed with Assignment of New Editor"
  15. Yerevan Press Club. MONITORING OF THE ARMENIAN MEDIA Archived 2014-06-05 at Archive.today
  16. Freedom House (13 September 2004). Nations in Transit 2004: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-4617-3141-2.
  17. Alla Mirzoyan (13 April 2010). Armenia, the Regional Powers, and the West: Between History and Geopolitics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-230-10635-2.
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