YEREVAN PRESS CLUB WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER 16-22, 2005
HIGHLIGHTS:
LITIGATION BETWEEN VANADZOR BRANCH OF HCA AND THE MUNICIPALITY CONTINUES
“AZG” IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
VITALIY DANILOV PASSED AWAY
LITIGATION BETWEEN VANADZOR BRANCH OF HCA AND THE MUNICIPALITY CONTINUES
On September 20 the court of primary jurisdiction of Lori region started the
hearings on the suit of Vanadzor Branch of Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly
versus the Lori Regional Department of RA Service of Compulsory Execution of
Judicial Acts. The Vanadzor Branch of HCA demanded to oblige the Service of
Compulsory Execution to perform the court decision on the suit of the
organization versus the municipality of Vanadzor. The lengthy litigation
between the HCA Vanadzor Branch and the city administration started in 2004
due to the refusal of the latter to provide the human rights organization
with the copies of all 2,614 resolutions, adopted by the municipality and
the Council of Elderly of the community in 2002-2003. On April 30, 2004 the
court of primary jurisdiction of Lori region secured the demand of the
plaintiff: the documents requested were to be provided, excluding those
containing secret information. The total amount of duty for the documents
was defined to be 1,000 AMD (about $ 2). This resolution was further
confirmed by courts of supreme jurisdiction (see details in the report on
freedom of speech in Armenia in 2004 on YPC web-site: )
Due to the fact that the municipality continued to deny access to documents,
the HCA Vanadzor Branch addressed the RA Service of Compulsory Execution of
Judicial Acts. As YPC was informed by HCA Vanadzor Branch, in February 2005
the staff of the Service of Compulsory Execution provided the NGO with
copies of about 240 resolutions of the municipality and the Council of
Elderly – for 2004, instead of 2002-2003. The next set of documents (around
270 resolutions), this time for 2002-2003, was received by the human rights
organization in May 2005. After this the HCA Vanadzor Branch got no
documents, which prompted it to address the court.
“AZG” IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
On September 20 the weekly of “Azg” newspaper was published in Russian
language. The 16-page full-color publication of A3 format was intended
primarily for Armenians, residing in Russia. Assistance to the publication
of the weekly is provided by the Union of Armenians of Russia and World
Armenian Congress. The activities of these organizations “will receive
particular attention in the weekly”, says the piece, published in the
homonymous Armenian daily on September 21, 2005, telling about the issuance
of the weekly.
According to the Chief Editor of “Azg” Hagob Avedikian, the first two issues
of the weekly with a print run of 1,500 copies will be free of charge.
Further it is planned to publish the weekly on Saturdays, with a print run
of up to 30,000 copies to be disseminated mostly in Russia. It is also
expected that a part of the print run, about 500 copies, be sold in Armenia,
through subscription.
VITALIY DANILOV PASSED AWAY
On September, at the age of 66 the veteran of Armenian journalism Vitaliy
Danilov passed away before his time. From 1968 till 1983 Vitaliy Danilov
worked with “Communist” newspaper, later – for the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Armenia. In 1981 Vitaliy Danilov was awarded the diploma
of the Journalists Union of USSR for successful newspaper campaigning in
1980. Being an active participant in Karabagh movement, in 1991 Vitaliy
Danilov was elected to be the Chairman of the Association of Protection of
Rights of Karabagh and the Co-Chairman of the International Congress of
Human Rights in the framework of OSCE. Since 1999 he had lived in Moscow.
Having authored numerous articles on the problem of Mountainous Karabagh,
published in a number of Russian media, during the past years Vitaliy
Danilov was writing a book on the resolution of Karabagh conflict. He did
not have time to publish the book…
Yerevan Press Club expresses its condolences to Vitaliy Danilov’s family and
friends.
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