2024 02 15 AZ GOP LD4 Gen Meeting Minutes_FINAL_20240228.docx
Warsaw Brief Introduction
1. THE IMPACT OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA ON DEMOCRACY
ONNIK JAMES KRIKORIAN
HTTP://WWW.ONNIK-KRIKORIAN.COM
2. Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the South
Caucasus countries can no longer be considered ‘in
transition.’ Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have built
functioning sovereign states. But many questions remain
about how well they are faring […]
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 20 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
THOMAS DE WAAL, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
HTTP://CARNEGIEENDOWMENT.ORG/2011/11/28/SOUTH-CAUCASUS-20-YEARS-AFTER-
INDEPENDENCE/6NRL?RELOADFLAG=1
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
8. THE MEDIA
DATA:
CAUCASUS
RESEARCH RESOURCE
CENTERS (CRRC)
How wellTV journalists inform the population (%) CB 2012
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia 12%
7%
8%
4%
8%
11%
8%
9%
19%
49%
28%
42%
21%
33%
16%
6%
14%
4%
Very well Quite well In the middle Quite poorly Very poorly Don't know
10. THE INTERNET
DATA:
!
CAUCASUS
RESEARCH RESOURCE
CENTERS (CRRC)
0
18
35
53
70
Social Networks Skype Search Email News Music/Videos
2222
24
50
34
70
37
16
31
59
30
50
19
25
22
46
5453
0
13
25
38
50
Internet access from PC Internet access from a cell phone
9
29
1516
24
42
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
0
15
30
45
60
Every day Less frequently Never Don't know what the Internet is
6
49
19
26
12
59
15
11
2
46
19
33
![Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the South
Caucasus countries can no longer be considered ‘in
transition.’ Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have built
functioning sovereign states. But many questions remain
about how well they are faring […]
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS 20 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
THOMAS DE WAAL, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
HTTP://CARNEGIEENDOWMENT.ORG/2011/11/28/SOUTH-CAUCASUS-20-YEARS-AFTER-
INDEPENDENCE/6NRL?RELOADFLAG=1
THE SOUTH CAUCASUS](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)