ARMENIAN DAILIES SEEK WAYS TO OVERCOME PAPER SHORTAGE
Armenpress
Dec 06 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 6, ARMENPRESS: A pro-government daily Hayots Ashkhar
will be printed by Noyan Tapan printing house for almost a decade
after the biggest Tigran Mets printing house that prints about 30
magazines and newspapers said it will suspend newspaper printing from
December 8 because of running out of paper.
The chief editor of the daily, Gagik Mkrtchian, said they will have
to cut the print-run by half because Noyan Tapan charges two times
more. A representative of another semi-official daily Hayastani
Hanrapetutyun said they have not taken concrete steps yet to seek an
alternative printing house.
Gind printing house, which prints several independent newspapers and
magazines, has agreed to print the independent daily Aravot.
On December 4 the chief manager of "Tigran Mets" printing-house Vrezh
Markosian said it will suspend newspaper printing from December 8
because it has run out of paper. The printing house will most likely
resume newspaper printing on December 16 when fresh batches of paper
are expected to reach Armenia. The paper is to come on a ferryboat
from Ukraine’s Ilichevsk bound for Georgian Poti.
The printing house used to bring paper by trucks through the Upper
Lars border check point on the Georgian-Russian border, but it was
closed by Russians for repair in summer and has not been competed yet.
