YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Broadcast of the morning news prepared by Radio Liberty Yerevan editorial office was almost completely failed on February 23. But, as Armen Dulian, the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan Bureau of the radio station informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, one must not observe the happened as a display of opressive policy towards the radio station as, in his words, Radio Liberty "does not present any danger" for anybody. According to the explanation of Armen Amirian, the Public Radio Company Director, the reason of temporary impediment of broadcast was technical spoilage: the cable broadcasting sound signals was damaged. At the same time, A.Dulian did not disprove the information of the "Haykakan Zhamanak" (Armenian time) daily that Radio Liberty was consistently deafened on the threshold of the 2005 Constitutional amendments. He qualified publication of "Haykakan Zhamanak" and the case of impediment of today's broadcast as "a strange coincidence." In A.Dulian's words, "the political situation always straines on the days preceding the elections."

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