Taguhi Tovmasyan
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.
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| 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), 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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