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Two YSU department heads arrested in bribery case

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Photo: Furkan Akkurt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Four people have been arrested as part of criminal proceedings initiated by the Anti-Corruption Committee, including Vardan Ayvazyan, head of the Department of Constitutional Law at Yerevan State University, and Edik Minasyan, head of the Department of Armenian History. According to the committee, Ayvazyan has been charged with accepting a bribe and Minasyan with aiding and abetting the acceptance of a bribe. Citing the interests of the preliminary investigation, the committee did not disclose further details.

Coverage timeline

Who reported first and how the others caught up. Each bar shows how many of that side's outlets covered the story.

First to report: Armlur / Joghovurd · 15:43 · Opposition

Pro-government 4 / 6 First: Public TV news (H1 / Lurer), 21 min later
Balanced 9 / 14 First: Radar Armenia, 18 min later
Opposition 15 / 21 First: Armlur / Joghovurd, 15:43

Foreign outlets: 1, first: Sputnik Armenia, 16:19

Timeline as a list
  1. Armlur / Joghovurd (Opposition)
  2. Hraparak (Opposition)
  3. Radar Armenia (Balanced)
  4. 24news.am (Opposition)
  5. Tert.am (Opposition)
  6. Public TV news (H1 / Lurer) (Pro-government)
  7. Infocom (Balanced)
  8. Factor (Balanced)
  9. Ararat News (Balanced)
  10. 168 Zham (Opposition)
  11. Hayeli (Opposition)
  12. News.am (Opposition)
  13. FreeNews (Pro-government)
  14. Mediahub (Opposition)
  15. Panorama (Opposition)
  16. CivilNet (Balanced)
  17. Past / Pastinfo (Opposition)
  18. Hetq (Balanced)
  19. Aravot (Balanced)
  20. Sputnik Armenia (Foreign)
  21. Iravunk (Opposition)
  22. Alphanews.am (Opposition)
  23. Oragir.news (Opposition)
  24. Mamul.am (Balanced)
  25. Haykakan Zhamanak (Armtimes) (Pro-government)
  26. Golos Armenii (Opposition)
  27. Livenews.am (Opposition)
  28. Civic.am (Pro-government)
  29. Azatutyun (RFE/RL) (Balanced)

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