{"id":122225,"date":"2011-08-30T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=122225"},"modified":"2011-10-17T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T07:48:49","slug":"robert-sturua-wont-be-apologizing-for-xenophobic-statements-calling-saakashvili-armenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/30\/robert-sturua-wont-be-apologizing-for-xenophobic-statements-calling-saakashvili-armenian.html","title":{"rendered":"Robert Sturua Won&#8217;t be Apologizing for Xenophobic Statements Calling Saakashvili Armenian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former artistic director of the Tbilisi-based Rustaveli Theatre Robert Sturua believes that he was fired not because of his racist, xenophobic statements, but because of his statements critical of the Georgian government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for my statement about the fact that I do not want my president to be Armenian, I don&#8217;t consider it offensive. If any Armenian or Russian says that he dreams that his president is Georgian, I apologize,&#8221; he said, reports Georgia Online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have many Armenian friends, and even my aunt is Armenian,&#8221; said Sturua, once again stressing that there was no traces of racism in his statements, so he is not going to apologize for them.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the prominent artistic director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/the_fall_of_robert_sturua\/24305681.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">had said<\/span><\/strong><\/a> that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili cannot love Georgia because he is (secretly) of Armenian descent.<\/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>Former artistic director of the Tbilisi-based Rustaveli Theatre Robert Sturua believes that he was fired not because of&#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":120014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29412,10256,16928,31235,18494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122225"}],"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=122225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}