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Taguhi Tovmasyan has been a member of the National Assembly since 2019. Initially, she was a member of the “My Step” faction as a non-partisan deputy. However, after the 44-day war, on November 16, 2020, Tovmasyan announced her withdrawal from the faction. And in 2021, she was elected as a non-partisan deputy on the electoral list of the opposition “I Have Honor” bloc.

Tovmasyan regularly criticises the activities of the ruling force, for which she herself is criticised by former teammates.

After becoming a deputy, the “Joghovurd” newspaper was transferred to trust management by Hasmik Davtyan. Article 95 of the Constitution prohibits deputies from engaging in entrepreneurial activities. And Article 2 of the Law “On Guarantees for the Activities of Deputies of the National Assembly” stipulates that a deputy is obliged to withdraw from the state registration of an individual entrepreneur within 1 month after receiving the mandate, resign from the position held in a commercial organisation, or transfer his share in their authorised capital to trust management. Therefore, Tovmasyan transferred the “Joghovurd” newspaper to trust management to Hasmik Davtyan, who is the mother of Tovmasyan’s husband.

It should also be noted that Tovmasyan worked as a volunteer in the “Iravunk” newspaper in 2003-2004, and then, in 2004-2007, she was a journalist in the political department of the same newspaper. From 2007-2011, she was a journalist for the “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” newspaper.

In 2011, she founded the "Joghovurd" daily newspaper, where she held the position of editor-in-chief of the newspaper and the armlur.am website before becoming a member of parliament.

Since 2018, Knarik Manukyan has served as both director and editor-in-chief of the “Joghovurd” newspaper, following her previous experience as a journalist at the publication. According to the response provided to the MOM information request, before assuming her current role, Manukyan specialized in covering criminal topics for the “Joghovurd” daily and the armlur.am website from 2012 to 2019.

Sona Grigoryan has been the editor-in-chief of armlur.am since 2021. Before this role, she served as press secretary at the Health and Labour Inspectorate from 2017 to 2018, and as public relations officer at the Ministry of Justice between 2016 and 2017. From 2011 to 2016, Grigoryan worked as a journalist for the Joghovurd daily newspaper.

Hasmik Davtyan is the trustee manager of the “Joghovurd Newspaper Editorial Office” LLC. According to the biographical data provided by the “Joghovurd” daily, Hasmik Davtyan is still the trustee manager of the “Joghovurd Newspaper Editorial Office” LLC. From 1979 to 1998, she worked as an accountant at the Savings Bank of Vardenis, Gegharkunik region, Soviet Armenia. From 1998 to 2014, Davtyan was the treasurer of the Vardenis State Sanitary and Epidemiological Inspectorate (Sanipitkaran). The response to the survey also states that Hasmik Davtyan has been retired since 2022 and continues to engage in agriculture in the village of Balahovit, Abovyan region. It should be noted that Hasmik Davtyan became the company's trustee, since

Article 95 of the Constitution of Armenia prohibits deputies from engaging in entrepreneurial activities. Article 2 of the Law "On Guarantees for the Activities of Deputies of the National Assembly" stipulates that a deputy is obliged to withdraw from the state registration of an individual entrepreneur within 1 month after receiving the mandate, resign from the position held in a commercial organisation, or transfer his share in their authorised capital to trustee management. Therefore, the owner of the newspaper, a deputy of the National Assembly since 2019, Taguhi Tovmasyan, transferred the "Joghovurd" newspaper to trustee management to Hasmik Davtyan.