ARMENIANS FACE NEWSPAPER CUTBACKS.

Armenian newspapers now print only 44,500 copies a day, the Noyan Tapan news agency reported June 1. As a result, ever more Armenians must rely almost exclusively on the government-controlled electronic media, opposition leaders complained at a media seminar in Yerevan June 5-6. That meeting attracted European media officials who were also sharply critical of Yerevan’s media policy, the Armenian news agency said June 7.

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