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The Anonymous hacktivist group published days ago a batch of documents and invoices, which it says were the evidence of the UK state-funded Integrity Initiative project in Armenia, including a list of disloyal journalists, publications timetable, contacts' list and payment documents.

Among the leaked documents is a list of "activists in Armenia that contribute to Russian interests, propagandizing and promoting Russia’s official posture and intentions, while positioning themselves as ‘analysts’, ‘experts’, ‘politicians’".

Panorama.am turned to Johnny Melikyan, expert in Georgia whose name is in the list to comment on the documents.

“This is absolutely absurd. People in Armenia who helped the British organisation showed selective approach while preparing the report. It is totally illogic to accuse one for propagating for Russia based on the fact of working in the Slavonic University [in Yerevan]. The same is true linking the job at government-sponsored Noravank journal with Gazprom only for the fact that former PM Karen Karapetyan financed one issue of the magazine,” Melikyan told.

In his words no links of the articles that reportedly contribute to Russian propaganda are available. 

“I am not prone to think this is a deliberate attempt to denigrate our experts and specialists who have worked hard for years to promote the Armenian interest,” Melikyan added.