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TV COMPANY “LORI” DEPRIVED OF AIR

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The Vanadzor “Lori” TV Company has been deprived of air for the last two days. We tried to find out the reasons from the authorities of the TV Company. But its head Armen Sakhyan cannot be reached, and the executive director Narine Avetisyan is on vacation since yesterday.

Narine Avetisyan explained the fact by the technical problems of the TV Company and said it is not yet clear when they will be settled and hence when the TV Company will return to air.

But according to our source the situation is completely different. After the elections of local governing bodies in Vanadzor the candidate for the post of mayor Gagik Hovsepyan brought an announcement on a video tape to the TV Company, but its broadcasting was postponed for 1.5 days, as a result of which the video tape was not broadcast. Gagik Hovsepyan’s supporters are convinced that it was done as a result of the pressure from the city authorities.

The city authorities also visited the TV Company. At that moment the building of the TV Company was surrounded by a number of cars belonging to the city mayor and his supporters. According to the same source, some of the “visitors” went directly to the head of the TV Company.

After the “negotiations” the cars of the TV Company workers left the building, whereas the “guests” stayed there. Only after that was “Lori” switched off from air.