The State Department devoted significant funds to this Armenian project to “strengthen the Armenian information environment and cultivate U.S. Armenian professional partnerships in journalism; to support the Armenian media sector’s overall resilience to disinformation, strengthen professional reporting skills and standards,” likely targeted against Russian media.

“In partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the U.S.-Armenia Professional Partnership in Journalism (PPJ) Program enables Armenian journalists to visit the United States in a training program to improve information integrity, strengthen reporting skills, and cultivate U.S. relationships… the Program consists of three main segments: four two-week professional exchanges for print and online journalists, broadcast reporters, editors, and media managers; two one-month fellowships for 10 participants selected from the first two cohorts; and $20,000 in targeted assistance awarded to four of the ten fellows’ media organizations in Armenia to adopt approaches to build information integrity and promote journalism’s role in a free society.”