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MOM Armenia reports that CivilNet belongs to the Civilitas Foundation, whose declared ultimate beneficial owners are Mihran Minassian and Vartan Oskanian.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
CivilNet belongs to the Civilitas Foundation, whose ultimate beneficial owners, according to the submitted declaration, are Mihran Minassian and Vartan Oskanian. MOM Armenia reports that Civilitas founder Vartan Oskanian was a member of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction at the time of a 2012 criminal case against him.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
At that time, Oskanian was a member of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction in the National Assembly. ODIHR reports that CivilNet was part of a joint election fact-checking newsroom with Hetq, Factor TV, media.am and Ampop Media.
OSCE/ODIHR · 2026-06-08 · p. 15 · Open the source
The news room comprised representatives of Hetq, CivilNet, Factor TV, media.am, and Ampop Media, and published over 60 fact-checking and investigative articles related to disinformation narratives. ODIHR found that CivilNet focused largely on Civil Contract and Strong Armenia and gave both comparable, mainly neutral coverage.
OSCE/ODIHR · 2026-06-08 · p. 18 · Open the source
CivilNet diverged from this pattern by largely focusing on the Civil Contract Party and Strong Armenia, providing both with comparable, mainly neutral coverage. Yerevan Press Club found that CivilNet and Factor TV attempted to include as few evaluative (positive or negative) references to parties as possible.
Yerevan Press Club · 2026-07 · p. 9 · Open the source
Among the studied channels, “CivilNet” and “Factor TV” attempted to include as few references with sign-based characteristics as possible in materials devoted to parties and blocs. RSF names Civilnet.am among independent news sites fulfilling an independent watchdog role.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) · 2026 · Open the source
independent news sites such as Civilnet.am, hetq.am, Factor.am and Azatutyun.am are thriving and fulfilling an independent watchdog role that is essential in a democracy. 5 articles analysed: 0 with loaded wording, 5 neutral.
What happenedEAEU report: suspending Armenia's membership could raise gas prices 69%
Neutral Names who prepared the report and its subject in the same terms as the summary, without evaluative words.
OriginalWhat happenedPashinyan addresses COP17 leaders' summit
Neutral Quotes the Prime Minister in quotation marks, keeping both that nature saved Armenia and that it was abused, and names the summit in the opening.
OriginalWhat happenedThe Anti-Corruption Committee accuses Strong Armenia's candidate in Stepanavan of bribing voters
Neutral Reports that the committee received data about vote bribes, and names the committee as the source.
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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