Wednesday, November 18 2020 15:27

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan exerted serious political pressure on various countries in order not  to allow public media representing one country or another to cover  the military actions on the part of Artsakh. Head of Yerevan Press  Club Boris Navasardyan expressed this opinion.

"We all remember the statements of Azerbaijan, which threatens with  a" black list "of media covering events directly in Artsakh," he  said, recalling in this regard the German state media, which refused  to visit Artsakh during the hostilities. Such pressure, according to  the expert, had an adverse effect on Armenia in terms of coverage of  military events.

As a second factor, Navasardyan pointed the Turkish media, which are  included in international media networks and have business ties with  a number of countries and media, which had a certain impact on the  content of broadcast information. For example, he pointed to  Euronews, where Turkey has its share, which undoubtedly formed  certain trends.

With regard to the Russian media, the expert noted that the state  media of the Russian Federation, covering the military events,  hesitated depending on what position Russia has, and their current  goal is to show that the Russian Federation has played a decisive  role in resolving the conflict and fulfilled its responsibilities.   allied mission in relation to Armenia. "Regarding, relatively  speaking, the liberal media, during the war they had a serious  financial dependence on Azerbaijan. Because we saw very often that  what the Russian propaganda media reported was akin to what the  Azerbaijani propaganda media also reported. In particular, they write  that Russia lost in this war, betrayed its ally, and demonstrated  weakness in front of Turkey, "he said.

Navasardian also touched upon the media in Ukraine and Georgia, the  latter of which are financially dependent on Azerbaijan, which was  the reason for the content of the information broadcast to the  Georgian public. In particular, the head of the press club noted that  many Georgian media received funding from the Azerbaijani state oil  company Socar.

In Ukraine, he said, the factor of financial dependence is much  lower, since we are talking about individual journalists, bloggers,  hired before the war, and who continue to conduct Azerbaijani  propaganda.

"And for us, it turns out, an unfavorable information environment is  being created, because the media will talk not about war crimes, but  about the positive results of the war, and what is important, the  emphasis will be placed on Russia's loss. Because the majority of the  public in Ukraine and Georgia, such news about Russia is encouraging  from the point of view of their future, "the expert emphasized.