ARMENIAN VARIANT OF NOYAN TAPAN WEEKLY PUBLISHED
YEREVAN, MAY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian variant of the Noyan Tapan
weekly published on May 4. It is a separate edition with 16 pages for
every marz of the RA. Editions envisaged only for 5 marzes were still
published, but other 5 will be ready till the end of May.
Every marz edition of the Armenian-language weekly has marz pages
specifit for itself as well as common pages for all the marzes. The
themes are different, there are materials of political, economic,
public, cultural, scientific, entertainment characters.
As the newspaper heads mentioned, the newspaper will mainly be sold in
villages and centers of the marzes. It is envisaged to sell 3 thousand
copies in each of the marzes, so, the total print run of the newspaper
will be more than 30 thousand copies (it is a very big number of
today’s Armenia). The price of the periodical, 50 drams (in the case
when the usual price for newspapers today is at least 100 drams), is
aimed to make the newspaper more reasonable for the population of the
marzes. The big print run and the affordability of the price, in the
words of the newspaper administration, must interest potential
advertisers of both Armenia and abroad.
As the ones responsible for the newspaper mentioned, the goal of this
initiative is to complete the information lack existing in the marzes
and to assist liquidation of the barrier existing between the center
and remote parts.