{"id":23786,"date":"2020-08-17T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=23786"},"modified":"2020-09-02T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:44:52","slug":"protests-in-belarus-and-the-armenian-tv-channels-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2020\/08\/17\/23786\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests In Belarus And The Armenian TV Channels\u2019 Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement of the preliminary results of the presidential elections in Belarus was followed by protests. Since August 9, there have been bloody clashes between security forces, “demonstrators” and violence against arrested citizens. The <\/span>work<\/span><\/a> of journalists was hindered, the internet connection was disrupted, and the President of Belarus saw the hands of foreign forces in the demonstrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to official data, 80.1% of voters received the trust of Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is in second place with a 10.12% result, who led the opposition front after her husband was not registered as a candidate and was arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaders of a number of countries congratulated Lukashenko, including Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. A number of other countries have not recognized the election results, there is talk of sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tikhanovskaya left Belarus on August 11 and received asylum in Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n

2 deaths have been registered so far. The protests are taking place not only in Minsk, the participants are wearing white clothes with flowers. There have been strikes throughout the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

These events are in the center of the attention of both the world and the local press. To find out the approaches to the coverage of Armenian TV channels, media.am has studied the main broadcasts of their news since August 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Public Television: The things we wouldn’t know about by listening to them<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we had watched the main news program of Public Television for six days and considered that this was our only source of information, we would not have known that in Belarus:<\/span><\/p>\n