Armenia gives news media free access to State Registry information

10:26, 30 April, 2020

YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS. Journalists and news outlets no longer have to pay a state duty for accessing the information kept in the State Registry Agency of Legal Persons as the Ministry of Justice introduced a new regulation.

From now on the information will be provided free of charge, a move which the ministry of justice described will “strengthen guarantees of investigative journalism and media freedom, and will contribute them to providing the public with more accurate and comprehensive information”.

The reform is in pursuance of the government’s 2019-2023 Action Plan.

The legislative package covering the matter was approved by parliament in March 2020.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS