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NEW LAW "ABOUT MASS MEDIA" IS THE EASIEST WAY TO CLOSE DOWN NEWSPAPERS
Support A1+!What has happened to A1+ TV company, is expected to happen with opposition press, if the new Bill "About Mass Media" is passed. Here is what the today's discussion participants were worried about.
Particularly, the 15th clause of the Bill, i.e. "Transparency of financial means", serves not to fulfill the requirements of the Council of Europe, but to close down newspapers in the easiest way, states the chief-in-editor of the newspaper "Azg" Hakob Avetikyan. At this moment the newspaper "Azg" has 11 mln Drams of debt. It means that the newspaper is to be declared bankrupt and be closed down, if the bill "About Mass Media" in its present state is passed.
