TSVETANA PASKALEVA: ARMENIANS, WITH ALL THE EVIDENCE, AT A DISADVANTAGE IN PROPAGANDA WAR

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.07.2009 17:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Three times the Azerbaijani authorities sentenced
to death the Bulgarian journalist Tsvetana Paskaleva for her coverage
of the Karabakh war. She believes that, unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan
carries out a consistent, well-organized propaganda war and has
victories on this front.

"With a strong historical and legal proof of its righteousness, the
Armenian side has not implemented the required work in the field of
propaganda, and has not even provided basic information. From this
perspective, the Armenian side is visibly losing its way. The world
community does not seek to touch bottom and take ready information,
which is mainly provided by the Azerbaijani side, forgetting, as
a rule, the historical truth and distorting the facts," Tsvetana
Paskaleva stressed.

7 films about the Karabakh war Paskaleva shot are stored in
long-obsolete VHS format, though they could be successfully used to
inform the world public.

"I do not understand the reason of such a situation, maybe someone
should ask me for my films to educate and advocate, but to date, nobody
did," Tsvetana Paskaleva told a news conference in Yerevan today.

Tsvetana Paskaleva is a well-known Bulgarian journalist, director,
scenario writer. film operator and member of the International
Documentary Association (Los Angeles). Since May 1991, she has shot
documentaries about the interethnic conflicts between Armenians and
Azeris. The following 7 films are devoted to Karabakh: "Altitudes,
Hopes" (1991), "Will Morning Smile upon Karabakh?" (1992), "My
Dear Living and Dead" (1993), "The Wounds of Karabakh" (1994),
"Soldiers of Their Land" (1994), "Calmness" (1995), "Belief and
Spirit" (devoted to the liberation of Shushi, 2001). Beginning 1995,
Paskaleva worked in Armenian television as a director; she hosted "My
Dear Living and Dead" Russian language broadcast about Karabakh. The
broadcast was closed down in 1997, by the order of the then President
Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Since 1998, Tsvetana Paskaleva started running
"Aspect" TV broadcast which was closed down in 2000.