ACCORDING TO ESTIMATION OF DE FACTO MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MERUZHAN TER-GULANIAN, SERGE SARGSIAN "IS PERSON CREATING STATE"

Noyan Tapan
Nov 02 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The first issue of the De
Facto public-political magazine, the editor-in-chief of which is
Meruzhan Ter-Gulanian, was published in October. RA Defence Minister
Serge Sargsian’s photo is on the cover of the first issue of the
newspaper. Responding at the November 2 presentation of the magazine
the journalists’ question by what the choice of S.Sargsian’s photo
was especially provided, M.Ter-Gulanian explained: the editorial
staff chose especially S.Sargsian’s photo as the latter made a
very responsible statement, that’s: "the best elections must be
held in 2007, and there are all the bases for it." According to
M.Ter-Gulanian’s estimation, S.Sargsian "is a person creating the
state." "From Karabakh to Armenia – 19 years, he has led a high state
post. And, I believe, that if this state has had any achievements,
it is obliged for it to Serge Sargsian," the De Facto editor-in-chief
stated. M.Ter-Gulanian assured that the new magazine will differ from
others first of all with its independent posture: "It is not financed
by any party or oligarch." Instead of it, 45 of the 100 pages of De
Facto were sold to advertisers, what the magazine editor considers a
normal phenomenon as "all mass media of the world are depending on
advertisers." In M.Ter-Gulanian’s words, analytical articles will
mainly be placed in the magazine "to lead forward the analytical
idea of Armenia. "All the underwater problems" existing in Armenia
will be explained in those articles. "The magazine has no political
orientation and will not throw mud at anybody" the editor-in-chief
of the newspaper promised.