Public Television, Armenia
Nov 6 2009

Armenian presidential office removes 1,300 "anti-Armenian" videos from
YouTube

The PR and information centre of the Armenian presidential
administration has removed about 1,300 anti-Armenian video records
from the Youtube website in the past two months, the head of the
centre, Ara Saghatelyan, has told a news conference in Yerevan, the
state-owned Armenian Public TV reported on 6 November (at 1700 gmt).
The centre has developed conceptual methods aimed at neutralizing
information wars in the virtual world, the TV said.

"We are monitoring measures initiated in particular by Armenia’s known
neighbouring country [probably Azerbaijan] aimed against Armenia’s
information interests. We provide assistance in issues of
counteraction to such measures", the Novosti-Armenia news agency
quoted Saghatelyan as saying in its 6 November (1256 gmt) report.

Saghatelyan said that CIS and Baltic states are going to establish a
joint information platform, which will discuss issues linked to
information security, Armenian Public TV reported. Saghatelyan said
that a forum with participation of the media from the aforementioned
countries is scheduled for December of this year in Moscow, the TV
reported. Saghatelyan said that the new technical system has made it
possible to protect Armenian government’s websites from hacker
attacks. The head of the centre said Armenia relied on intellectual
capacity in the information war, whereas Azerbaijan relied on hired
workforce, the TV reported.

"Tentatively speaking, there is no website that cannot be hacked. It
is continuously reported that even databases of major banks are
hacked, and so on. … However, any government or any private party
strives to set up a system that would protect its network resources
from external interventions", Armenian Public TV quoted Saghatelyan as
saying at a news conference.