Cutting the Gas Line: Part of a Broader Issue?

This post started in an unusual place for me: a search through all the sources through which I check the news (which is quite an extensive list) for the word "Armenia." Only one result appeared. It was an article from the BBC, which can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8411261.stm. The first thing I found to be odd was that the article was so brief and so full of speculation. There was no concrete reason given for the planting of the alleged bomb plot. The second was that there was absolutely no follow up. According to the BBC, Russia cut off the gas on December fourteenth, and there were absolutely no articles in the BBC or any other news source I could find about a resolution of this conflict. After scouring the web for more information, I found only articles similar to the BBC's: brief and unresolved. Most articles just quoted the BBC exactly, except for Euronews. Then I found an Armenian news source known as Asbarez. In their article, more information was given. After reading the paragraph, "Supplies of Russian gas to its ex-Soviet neighbors have been disrupted at various times in recent years by security scares and by political disputes’. Russia cut supplies to parts of the European Union last winter during a pricing dispute with Ukraine. Russia’s Gazprom stopped buying gas from Turkmenistan in April after a pipeline explosion sparked a broader diplomatic row over gas," I realized that this lack of media coverage was just a microcosm of a larger issue. Russia had frequently cut off Armenia's gas supply, and extremely few news sites covered it because there is a blatant disregard for Armenia in the media and in Western politics. This problem is not new. On pages 288 and 299, Balakian gives a detailed list of all the suffering Armenia has had to go through since independence, and cutting the gas lines is just one of the attempts to eradicate Armenia which Turkey has used in the past. Although I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, this story has no definite evidence, no broad media coverage and clear echoes of the past. Even scarier, the majority of the related links I clicked on by googling the term "Armenia gas" said that the articles had been deleted. This would make sense had the event taken place about six months ago, but the gas was only cut off on December fourteenth. Perhaps one of the comments on Asbarez sums it up best, "This was predictable enough, why Armenians are sleeping?"