"Editorial Office of Joghovurd Newspaper" LLC

Joghovurd Newspaper Editorial Office LLC was founded in 2010. This company publishes the “Joghovurd” daily newspaper, the first issue of which was published in February 2011. The company also owns the website armlur.am, registered in 2010 and launched in March 2012. Type of economic activity: advertising distribution activities.
The founder and owner of the company, Taguhi Tovmasyan, has been a deputy of the National Assembly since 2019, first as a member of the “My Step” faction. After the 44-day war, on November 16, 2020, she 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.
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 within 1 month after receiving the mandate, a deputy is obliged to withdraw from the state registration of an individual entrepreneur, resign from the position held in a commercial organization, or transfer his share in their authorized capital to trust management. Therefore, from 2019, Tovmasyan transferred the “Joghovurd” newspaper to trust management to Hasmik Davtyan, who is the mother of Tovmasyan’s husband.
Key Facts
| Business Form | Commercial / For-profit |
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| Legal Form | Limited Liability Company (LLC) |
Ownership
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Media Outlets
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| Founding Year | 2010 |
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| Employees | 12 |
| Contact | Abovyan 22a/3 0010 Yerevan Armenia info.armlur@gmail.com +374 10546423 ; +374 96546423 ; +374 9310546423 www.armlur.am |
| Tax / ID Number | LLC 08211581 State Register of Legal Entities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia |
| Revenue | Missing Data |
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| Operating Profit | Missing Data |
| Advertising (in % of total funding) | Missing Data |
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| Active Transparency | company/channel informs proactively and comprehensively about its ownership, data is constantly updated and easily verifiable | |
| Meta Data | The available financial report is quite old, from 2016. The financial report is published on the newspaper’s website armlur.am. Moreover, there is no separate section on the website with the name “financial report” or something similar, where the reports could be easily found. However, in response to the survey, the company provided the 2024 annual financial report and answered all the research team’s questions. We also asked to clarify whether the financial report also includes the website’s indicators, to which they replied that the financial report includes indicators related to both the newspaper and the website. According to the 2024 annual financial report provided in response to the survey, revenues amounted to 4,827,190 AMD (12,314 USD) from newspapers. Revenues from advertising amounted to 65,768,624 AMD (167,777 USD). Printing costs amounted to 6,120,000 AMD (15,612 USD), salaries 50,762,418 AMD (129,495 USD), and other expenses 5,850,289 AMD (14,924 USD). Taxes paid: income tax: 9,589,485 AMD (24,462 USD), turnover tax: 3,360,836 AMD (8,573 USD), social security contributions: 2,151,196 AMD (5,487 USD). Stamp duty: 694,000 AMD (1,770 USD). The last page of the newspaper lists the name and surname of the editor-in-chief, the newspaper's contact information, as well as information on the circulation. The website also lists the name of the editor of a separate website. The company also provided information on the number of visits to the Facebook page, YouTube page, as well as the armlur.am website is owned by the same company. Thus, according to the survey response, from May 10 to August 7, the newspaper’s Facebook page under the name “Joghovurd Daily” had 100,533,432 views. 74% of the visitors to the Facebook page were from Yerevan. During the same period, the YouTube page had 17,642,708 views. The armlur.am website, which also belongs to “Joghovurd Daily Editorial Office” LLC, had 4,000,000 views between June 1 and July 6. | |
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