Vahagn Boyajyan

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Vahagn Boyajyan is the founder, owner, and director of Mediahub LLC, established in 2021.


Boyajyan previously served as head of the press center of the National Security Service (NSS), though he held this position for only eight days. Two days after the resignation of former NSS Director Artur Vanetsyan, Boyajyan was also dismissed. For several months, media outlets identified him as Artur Vanetsyan's assistant.


In 2022, following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's announcement regarding the status of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), opposition forces launched street protests. During the spring demonstrations, Sos Hakobyan, a member of the board of the Hayreniq party founded by Artur Vanetsyan, wrote on Facebook that police had detained members of their party, including Vahagn Boyajyan.


Mediahub LLC is registered at a different address (50/1 Dzorap Street) than the address listed on the mediahub.am website (70/1 Dzorap Street). The Hayreniq party operates at 70/1 Dzorap Street, and the associated Mediahub Information and Analytical Centre NGO is registered at 70/3 Dzorap Street in the same building.

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  • Artur Vanecyan
    Artur Vanetsyan is the former director of the National Security Service (NSS). He assumed this position in May 2018, when Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister following anti-government protests known as the Velvet Revolution. In 2018, Vanetsyan was also appointed president of the Football Federation of Armenia. In September 2018, a recording of a telephone conversation between Vanetsyan and Sasun Khachatryan, head of the Special Investigation Service, appeared online. During the conversation, they discussed the detention of former President Robert Kocharyan and the criminal case initiated against Yuri Khachaturov, then Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Vanetsyan stated that the CSTO Secretary General should not be touched, as there was a risk of damaging relations with Russia. Months later, a recording of a wiretapped telephone conversation between Vanetsyan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the same topic also appeared online. After serving for 18 months, Vanetsyan resigned as NSS Director in September 2019, and subsequently resigned as Football Federation President. The exact reasons for his resignation were not clearly stated. In his resignation statement, he noted that state-building requires coordination rather than unilateral decisions, and since an officer's shoulder strap is incompatible with such a process, he was resigning. In 2020, Vanetsyan became chairman of the Hayreniq party. In 2021, the Hayreniq party participated in snap parliamentary elections in the I Have Honor alliance with the Republican Party of Armenia, with Vanetsyan as the alliance's candidate for Prime Minister. Vanetsyan was elected to Parliament on the national electoral list of the I Have Honor alliance. However, in June 2022, he announced on Facebook that he was resigning his parliamentary mandate. According to his statement, citizens had given them a mandate to stop the destructive activities of the authorities, but Parliament had ceased to be an effective platform for achieving this goal.
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The mediahub.am website states the year of the media outlet’s foundation and its purpose, which is to present fresh and timely information about events taking place in Armenia, the Diaspora, and the world. The “Our Team” section lists the editor’s name and presents other team members with photos. Although the website does not have a “Financial Reports” section where it would be possible to easily find annual financial reports, they are nevertheless published on the website and can be found by searching for the keyword “financial report.” The media outlet responded to the request and provided all the necessary information, except for biographical information about the director’s activities. The media outlet also provided information about page views on social networks. The website, in particular, responded that they provide averaged monthly data on page views. The mediahub.am website averages 2.5 million views, the various Facebook pages belonging to the media outlet average 100 million, the YouTube page averages 2.7 million, and the Instagram page averages 4.8 million views.

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  • Mediahub LLC profile (Armenian)
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  • Mediahub LLC CEO (Armenian)
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  • Mediahub LLC charter (Armenian)
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  • Mediahub LLC response to MOM request (Armenian)
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  • Mediahub online website address (Armenian)
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  • Financial report of Mediahub LLC (Armenian)
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