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The State Register lists «ԱՐԱՐԱՏ ՄԵԴԻԱ ԳՐՈՒՊ» LLC (reg. no. 273.110.783042, registered 18 September 2013) with the status 'activity terminated' and shows no beneficial-ownership declarations.
State Register (Ministry of Justice) · 2026 · Open the source
Գործունեությունը դադարեցված էActivity has been terminated
MOM Armenia states that Alen Simonyan, whom it describes as currently President of the National Assembly and a member of the ruling Civil Contract party, was editor-in-chief and founder of Ararat Media Group LLC, which operated araratnews.am, between 2013 and 2018.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
Between 2013 and 2018, he was editor-in-chief and founder of Ararat Media Group LLC, which operated the news website araratnews.am and the magazine Ararat. DFRLab included Ararat News 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.
DFRLab (Atlantic Council) · 2026-08-24 · Open the source
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. 8 articles analysed: 0 with loaded wording, 8 neutral.
What happenedAraghchi: Iran trusts Armenia will not act against Iran's security
Neutral Gives both parts of Araghchi's statement, concern about US presence and trust in Armenia, with attribution, as in the summary.
OriginalWhat happenedGagik Vanoyan dismissed as head of State Protocol Service
Neutral Reports the dismissal in factual terms, without speculating on the reasons.
OriginalWhat happenedInterior minister and UN WFP to expand cooperation on disasters
Neutral Reports the agreement to expand cooperation in factual terms, based on the ministry's information.
OriginalEvery 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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