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    HOW MUCH COSTS A MINUTE AT EURONEWS
    Hakob Badalyan

    Lragir.am
    08/02/10

    "Azerbaijani days" were declared at the Euronews channel. The channels
    showed an interview with the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
    where they presented the hard life of people who were forced to leave
    Karabakh becoming refugees and who are currently waiting to return to
    their homes thanking the Azerbaijani government for its assistance
    but say that the best will be to return to their territories. And
    the territories, according to Euronews, are occupied by Armenians.

    When Euronews shows a report on Armenia or Karabakh, the Armenian
    government presents it as a result of its constructive and initiative
    policy and shows it every day. Such a thing happened lately when
    Euronews showed a report on Karabakh and the Armenian official
    propaganda was nearly to declare it as the start of Karabakh's
    membership to the European Union.

    Now the Azerbaijani government is perhaps engaged in the same thing
    and shows the Euronews report on different Azerbaijani channels
    presenting it as an achievement of the Azerbaijani foreign policy
    and an important step aimed at the return of the territories.

    Euronews now probably wonders whether the Armenians do not want to
    "order" a "counter report". And Armenia, apparently is trying to find
    out whether Azerbaijan had paid more and raised the price for the
    "objectivity" of Euronews or the situation is the same.

    But this is not important, but the thinking of the Armenian and
    Azerbaijani elite. They think that any interview in the influential
    world media contributes to strengthening their political positions.

    They think that interviews, articles in foreign media can change the
    reality that they can solve some problems because the world centers
    sit and watch TV and read newspapers to decide how to proceed.

    Apparently, they think that the interests of the United States,
    Russia, and Great Britain are formed solely from reading newspapers,
    as is the case, apparently, in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    Perhaps the elite of Armenia and Azerbaijan understand that all
    is not so, but try to convince the society and "wash" its brains
    at least for a week with the help of a report at Euronews or some
    other channels, rather than to secure some real success within the
    society. The international community prefers judging about conflicts,
    including Karabakh, by the phenomena and events not in the newspapers,
    but in the real life.

    The calculation of interviews and reports in the foreign media is not
    important because they do not change anything but the home situation
    depending on the strength of the foreign policy does. By the way,
    the question of Euronews to Ilham Aliyev about whether he feels the
    king is the best proof of this. Although it is not excluded that the
    Armenian elite is offended by Euronews for the fact that they did
    not ask this question the Armenian leadership.
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