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MOM Armenia reports that Iravunk Media LLC is a holding covering the Iravunk newspaper, iravunk.com, ITV and the Russian-language Komsomolskaya Pravda v Armenii.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
Iravunk Media LLC operates as the media holding company that encompasses the print newspaper, the iravunk.com website, ITV television company, and the Russian-language newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda v Armenii. MOM Armenia reports that holding founder Hayk Babukhanyan holds 52% of Iravunk Media LLC (MOM also gives 54% for the Babukhanyan family elsewhere on the page).
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
The founding president of the holding is Hayk Babukhanyan, who holds 52% of the shares in Iravunk Media LLC. MOM Armenia reports that Iravunk was founded in 1989 as the official publication of the Constitutional Rights Union party (chaired by Babukhanyan since 2006).
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
Iravunk newspaper was founded in 1989 as the official publication of the Constitutional Rights Union party, led by Hrant Khachatryan. MOM Armenia reports that the Constitutional Rights Union party advocates development through cooperation with Russia.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
According to party statements and publications by its leadership, the party advocates for Armenia's development through cooperation with Russia and strengthening bilateral relations. DFRLab attributes iravunk.com to the 'Sargssyan' developer cluster of websites it describes as pro-Kremlin.
DFRLab (Atlantic Council) · 2026-08-24 · Open the source
The Sargssyan™ cluster includes iravunk.com, past.am, hayeli.am, Lurer.com, pressmedia.am, newsarm.live, orer.am, newspress.am, times.am, and armenia24.live, among others. DFRLab reports that iravunk.com and golosarmenii.am share at least seven identical file hashes, but treats this as a preliminary technical lead, not confirmed coordination.
DFRLab (Atlantic Council) · 2026-08-24 · Open the source
The most notable overlap was observed between iravunk.com and golosarmenii.am, which share at least seven identical file hashes. However, this finding should be treated as a preliminary technical lead rather than confirmed evidence of infrastructure-level coordination. MOM Armenia reports that co-owner Hayk Babukhanyan, Constitutional Rights Union chairman, was an MP for two convocations, once on the Republican Party list, and founded the 'Strong Armenia with Russia' party in 2021.
Media Ownership Monitor Armenia · 2025 · Open the source
Hayk Babukhanyan is the party chairman and has served as a member of parliament for two convocations, once on the 'Law and Unity' alliance list and the second time on the Republican Party electoral list. In 2021, Babukhanyan also founded the 'Strong Armenia with Russia' party. No data found in the sources we accept.
13 articles analysed: 5 with loaded wording, 8 neutral.
What happenedHayastan faction MP Kristine Vardanyan wrote that a COP17 badge lanyard could have been bought for 55 drams instead of 600, saving 80 million drams; another source gives different figures.
EmphasisFavours the opposition Headline and opening reproduce MP Kristine Vardanyan's claims about the lanyard price and 80 million drams of possible savings without naming her, while Politik.am attributes the same words to Vardanyan and the summary notes that another source gives different figures.
OriginalWhat happenedStrong Armenia faction head Narek Karapetyan claimed in Stepanavan that Pashinyan is considering quick snap elections, citing expected gas price, constitutional and EU demands.
EmphasisFavours the opposition Headline and opening state as fact that Pashinyan 'is going to' snap elections and why, without naming Narek Karapetyan, to whom the summary and Tert.am attribute the claim.
OriginalWhat happenedCiting government sources, a press report said authorities are discussing an Azerbaijani shepherd's border crossing and expect explanations from the Defence Ministry and the General Staff.
Loaded wordFavours the opposition The headline, attributed to Zhoghovurd, uses the colloquial term 'azeri' and 'yet another' for the man who crossed the border, where Mamul.am and Oragir.news write 'Azerbaijani shepherd'.
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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