1in.am news website is operated by "Skizb Media kentronr" LLC which is owned entirely by Arman Babajanyan.
Connections
MOM Armenia classifies 1in.am as having politically affiliated ownership: owner Arman Babajanyan founded the 'For the Republic' party and was elected MP on the Bright Armenia list in December 2018.
1in.am: Arman Babajanyan, owner of the 1in.am online media outlet, is the founder of the 'For the Republic' party. On December 9, 2018, he was elected as a member of parliament on the 'Bright Armenia' party's national electoral list.
MOM Armenia reports that Babajanyan left the Bright Armenia faction in 2019 and continued as an independent MP.
In 2018, he was elected to the National Assembly on the national electoral list of the "Bright Armenia" party. But in 2019, Arman Babajanyan announced that he was leaving the "Bright Armenia" faction. Later, he continued his activities as an independent deputy.
MOM Armenia reports that Babajanyan is active in pro-Western advocacy, including an EU-membership referendum petition (2024) and a protest against the Russian military base in Gyumri (August 2025).
He remains active in pro-Western advocacy, including collecting signatures for an EU membership referendum in 2024 and organizing protests against Russian military presence in Armenia, including a demonstration against the 102nd military base in Gyumri in August 2025.
What independent reports say
DFRLab (Atlantic Council)
DFRLab included 1in in its ten-outlet mainstream corpus, selected from Pikasa Analytics' Media Ratings, which rank Armenian digital news outlets by audience reach and social media engagement.
To identify mainstream online news outlets, we relied on Pikasa Analytics’ Media Ratings, which rank digital news providers based on audience reach and social media engagement (data extracted on June 13 covers six months). Pikasa was selected due to the absence of reliable and transparent rankings for Armenian media outlets. The selected outlets are: Mamul, Armtimes, Factor, 1Lurer, 168.am, 1in, News.am, Oragir News, Ararat News, and Shant News.
Other findings
This is a separate axis, not pro-government or opposition, and it does not affect the label.
DFRLab reports that 2026 verbatim reproductions of Russian-origin, pro-Russian-cluster material were concentrated in three high-volume mainstream outlets, including 1in.
The only mainstream outlets that appear in the ranking (1in, Factor, 168) trail well behind, citing Russian sources at a fraction of the volume.
Word choice in real news
9 articles analysed: 1 with loaded wording, 8 neutral.
What happenedMirzoyan: Enclave exchange with Azerbaijan is possible
Անկլավների փոխանակմամբ կբարձրանա ՀՀ անվտանգության մակարդակը. կլինեն խնդիրներ, նոր լուծումներ
Positive framingFavours the governmentStates without attribution that an enclave exchange "will raise" Armenia's security level; the summary presents an exchange only as one of the options discussed.
Every quote is checked: it appears word for word in its source. The highlighted words in the examples are taken unchanged from that outlet's own article.
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