{"id":100442,"date":"2011-05-30T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=100442"},"modified":"2011-05-30T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:05:53","slug":"popular-entertainer-actor-hovo-on-nikol-pashinyans-release-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/30\/popular-entertainer-actor-hovo-on-nikol-pashinyans-release-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Popular Entertainer, Actor Hovo on Nikol Pashinyan&#8217;s Release (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anchors of the program &#8220;Good Morning, Armenians&#8221; broadcast on Armenia TV congratulated Armenian viewers on May 28, on the occasion of Republic Day. Also present during the talk show were singer Hasmik Karapetyan and composer Avet Barseghyan.<\/p>\n<p>The program was marked by an announcement by well-known local actor and entertainer Hovhannes Azoyan (better known by his nickname &#8220;Hovo&#8221;) made around the 5th minute in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a double celebration for me because it&#8217;s the first independence day of the Republic of Armenia, which is very important.&#8221; Then Barseghyan said that audiences don&#8217;t listen to Azoyan as much as they <em>watch <\/em>him, &#8220;but this is one of those times when I advise you to<em> listen<\/em> carefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Azoyan continued: &#8220;And second, on the 28th, political prisoners in Armenia were finally released, including journalist Nikol Pashinyan, which is very important for you and I as a journalist, because you are a TV employee and I&#8217;m a TV employee. Rafael, you too are a TV employee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s president definitely should be congratulated, Azoyan added, &#8220;for displaying such will and courage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate you, Mr. President; I congratulate us all,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxjkZrhX7-k?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: ArmComedy News Network<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today is a double celebration for me because it&#8217;s the first independence day of the Republic of Armenia, which is&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27310,27309,27308,15418,27262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}