Examples of using Negative references in English and their translations into Russian
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At the same time, the latter two did not receive any negative references.
The other 6 negative references to Ter-Petrosian on the air of"Kentron" were made by other politicians.
In comparison, Armenian National Congress had 11 negative references, and no positive ones.
Negative references to the Republicans mostly were related to the deficiencies in the management of the city and the country in general.
Kentron" has been particularly critical towards the Republicans: not a single positive, and 15 negative references.
It should be noted, however, that 23 negative references to the First President were made by"What Newspapers Write About" program,?
Yet Ter-Petrosian's coverage on Public Radio was mostly negative 28 negative references of 44 or 63.6.
Negative references were distributed in a more balanced way:"Heritage" received two references and RPA and ANC- one each.
Respectively, 0 positive against 43 negative and 0 positive against 52 negative references- within the whole pre-election promotion.
Negative references to Serzh Sargsian are recorded mostly in discussion programmes, where guests make critical remarks about the incumbent President.
On"Kentron""Prosperous Armenia" received 65 positive and no negative references, while RPA received no positive and 20 negative references. .
It is based on the indicators of"Kentron" that"Prosperous Armenia" has the most favorable cumulative balance on all channels studied: 26 positive and 2 negative references.
At the same time, the balance of positive and negative references to the Republican Party of Armenia(RPA) was 0 and 9 on"Kentron", and 0 and 6 on"Yerkir Media.
AT THE SAME TIME Levon Ter-Petrosian remains the undisputed leader in terms of connotational references(146), or, more specifically, in terms of negative references 143 versus 3 positive ones.
In terms of balance of positive and negative references, the most favourable coverage was received by ARF-Dashnaktsutyun and"Prosperous Armenia" 24 and 17.
From specific channels the most balanced were Public Radio and"ArmNews",where the share of positive and negative references comprised 1.7% of the total number of references on the channel.
Out of 8 negative references of all the TV channels studied 3 were addressed to"Orinats Yerkir" and to Armenian National Congress each, 2- to the Republican Party of Armenia.
The most unfavourable was the coverage of the ruling party(28 positive and 153 negative references), which was an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of elections in Armenia.
THE BALANCE OF CONNOTATION REFERENCES to presidential hopefuls suggests that the attitude of the society is the most polarized when it comes to the candidacy of Serzh Sargsian 47 positive and 29 negative references.
Orinats Yerkir" party received 13 positive and no negative references(15.7% of the aggregate number of references): 8- on Second Armenian TV Channel and 5- on"Armenia.
AS TO CONNOTATIONS OF COVERAGE, on May 5-7, RPA and"Prosperous Armenia" had an extremely unfavourable balance in terms of the aggregate data of all the media studied:38 and 37 negative references, respectively, with complete absence of positive ones.
On"Yerkir-Media" ARF-Dashnaktsutyun received 29 positive and no negative references,"Prosperous Armenia"- 23 positive and 5 negative references, while RPA received no positive and 17 negative references.
If in October the share of materials, where Ter-Petrosian appeared in the negative, made up around one third of the total number of references, in November this indicator came to about two thirds- 293 negative references out of 499.
A certain exception was made here for"Armenia" TV channel,where the gap between the number of negative references to Ter-Petrosian in the first and second halves of October was not that obvious.
In terms of negative references to the first President Public Radio shared the leading position with"Kentron", yet on the latter the share of the negativism is somewhat smaller 52.8% of the total number of references. .
Azg" daily, paying least attention to the subject of Constitution,is the only publication having an almost equal proportion of positive and negative references, and the attitude of the newspaper may generally be described as neutral.
Both negative references to"Heritage" were contained in pieces of two various channels, where Karineh Hakobian, who had resigned from the post of the party Secretary, sharply criticized the joint electoral list formed together with the"Free Democrats.
In this regard it is important to note that ahead of elections andduring the pre-election promotion, all negative references to parties/bloc, their representatives were made not by the TV journalists themselves, but were contained in the opinions voiced by discussion program/newscast participants.
By the way, for the first time, during all phases of the monitoring of Armenian broadcast media coverage of elections to RA National Assembly in 2012, RPA has an overall negative balance in terms of the aggregate number of connotation references on all studied channels: 14 positive against 30 negative references.
An exception to the"general rule" described above is made by"Yerkir Media" TV channel,where the proportion of positive and negative references to Levon Ter-Petrosian and Serge Sargsian is more balanced(5-13 and 4-6, respectively), and in both cases the neutral references are a majority.