IN PUBLIC RADIO COMPANY DIRECTOR’S WORDS, TECHNICAL SPOILAGE IS REASON
OF TEMPORARY IMPEDIMENT OF BROADCAST OF RADIO LIBERTY
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Broadcast of the morning news
prepared by Radio Liberty Yerevan editorial office was almost
completely failed on February 23. But, as Armen Dulian, the
editor-in-chief of the Yerevan Bureau of the radio station informed
the Noyan Tapan correspondent, one must not observe the happened as a
display of opressive policy towards the radio station as, in his
words, Radio Liberty "does not present any danger" for anybody.
According to the explanation of Armen Amirian, the Public Radio
Company Director, the reason of temporary impediment of broadcast was
technical spoilage: the cable broadcasting sound signals was
damaged. At the same time, A.Dulian did not disprove the information
of the "Haykakan Zhamanak" (Armenian time) daily that Radio Liberty
was consistently deafened on the threshold of the 2005 Constitutional
amendments. He qualified publication of "Haykakan Zhamanak" and the
case of impediment of today’s broadcast as "a strange coincidence." In
A.Dulian’s words, "the political situation always straines on the days
preceding the elections."