Azerbaijan News Service
April 23, 2005

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MINISTRY TO JAM RTR
BROADCAST FOR THIRTY MINUTES
2005-04-23 15:47

Armenian president Robert Kocharyan will be the guest of weekly
`Zerkalo’ talk show of RTR, Russian state channel. The topic of the
program will be 90th anniversary of unrecognized Armenian genocide,
which will be marked on April 24. It was decided to cut broadcast of
RTR in Azerbaijan for 30 minutes starting from 9:25 p.m. Ali Abbasov,
minister of communication and information technology has already
given appropriate orders in this regard. Programs of Russian channels
confronting national interests of Azerbaijan were repeatedly aired
before. And in some cases, broadcast of these programs was
temporarily obstructed in Azerbaijan.