Editor-in-chief | Flora Nashkharian |
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Founded | 1934 |
Language | Russian language |
Headquarters | Yerevan |
Circulation | 3,500 (as of early 2000s) |
OCLC number | 22522583 |
Website | golosarmenii.am |
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]
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]
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]
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