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The Azerbaijani media published false material under the name of the expert on information security, Samvel Martirosyan, about “the problems in the Armenian army.” Initially, the material was posted on NKR-News.com. The forgery, however, was quickly unmasked and the website issued the following statement, “Dear visitors of the information portal NKR-News.com, we apologize for the incorrect work of the resource and for posting third-party content of provocative character. The portal was hacked.”

Commenting on the situation for Panorama.am, Samvel Martirosyan said that hacking news websites and posting false information under Armenian public figures’ names is becoming the Azerbaijani military propaganda’s handwriting.

“This is at least the fifth case over the past three months intending to discredit the Armenian army. Today, the society in Azerbaijan is in informational isolation. As we know, the undesirable journalists are detained there, information from the border area alternative to the official version is totally blocked, and access to Skype and WhatsApp is blocked. Such kind of unskillful stuffing apparently works for the domestic audience,” the expert said.