Deputy of the ruling My Step faction of the National Assembly of Armenia Mkhitar Hayrapetyan gave a media outlet half an hour to change, according to him, an unreliable title of its article or remove it.

“I was sent an article that was titled “National Assembly Currently Considering Bill Against Russian TV Channels”. I won’t give the name of the media outlet yet, but I’m giving the administration of that media outlet half an hour, I repeat, half an hour to either change the title very quickly or remove the article. We held many talks with our Russian colleagues yesterday, and the deputy parliamentary speaker and the chairman of the National Commission on Television and Radio touched upon the issue, and we had a brilliant conversation with the Russian ambassador. We are currently talking about certain regulations in the media that are aimed at increasing the level of national security and linguistic security,” Hayrapetyan said in parliament.

In his turn, Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakyan also responded to such articles.

“While we were holding a constructive discussion here, certain presses started releasing information according to which the parliament is adopting a bill against a certain country or broadcaster. I call on presses to stop releasing such news and committing such acts, and I would like to call on Armenia’s security bodies to track and take relevant measures in such cases,” he said.