Interfax, Russia
March 11 2009

Head of Armenian govt’s PR department, premier’s press secretary
dismissed

YEREVAN March 11

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has dismissed chief of the
Cabinet’s information and public relations office Meri Arutyunian and
the head of government’s press secretary Diana Mnatsakanian.

The decrees on the officials’ dismissal were signed on March 5 and
March 10, respectively, according to a report posted on the
government’s website.

Mnatsakanian has told Interfax that she is returning to her previous
PR job at Armenia’s national television station.

Arutyunian, for her part, told journalists that she has been offered a
post in the presidential administration.