Uninteresting topic

02/12/2005

Armenia’s constitutional amendments referendum is a pretty boring topic to discuss for foreign news networks. A number of French, Spanish, English, American and Swedish newspaper editions and television networks have talked about the parliamentary elections in Chechnya on November 27, but none have reflected upon Armenia’s referendum-except BBC television network. All data provided by the Russian news networks of BBC correspond to Armenian official results. “According to the Central Electoral Committee of Armenia, 64.4% of Armenian citizens with the right to vote have taken part in the referendum, of which 93.3% have said “yes” to the constitutional amendments. However, the country’s opposition, which has boycotted the referendum, believes that only 400 thousand citizens have cast their votes,” said BBC as it said a few words about the constitutional amendments referendum of Armenia.