Golos Armenii

Kommunist became Golos Armenii in August 1990.^[8] As of 1991, it was still an organ of the Communist Party, and was issued six times a week. B. M. Mkrtchyan served as the editor during this period.^[9] In the post-Soviet period, it became a thrice-weekly newspaper.^[2] Flora Nashkharian took over as editor-in-chief in 1992.^[10][11] Nashkharian worked at Kommunist since 1976, serving as its first deputy editor in the latter years.^[10]

As of the mid-1990s, Golos Armenii had a circulation of about 5,000, twelve journalists employed and around twenty other staff members. It was strongly opposed to the presidency of Levon Ter-Petrossyan.^[11][12] The newspaper was closed down by the government on May 11, 1995, in the midst of a dispute over rent of its editorial office. The closure was seen as a move to silence an opposition voice in the media.^[13] Shamiram Aghabekian served as deputy editor of Golos Armenii for a period, before becoming the editor-in-chief of Respublika Armenia (the Russian version of the government gazette Hayastani Hanrapetutyun) in 1998.^[14] In 1999, Golos Armenii claimed a circulation of 5,230. It was sold for around 100 Armenian dram per copy. The newspaper was printed in A2 format, with four pages.^[15] As of the early 2000s, it was estimated to have a circulation of 3,500.^[16] It was perceived as close to the government of Robert Kocharyan.^[17]

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