{"id":132400,"date":"2011-10-04T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=132400"},"modified":"2011-10-04T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:38:14","slug":"myth-in-armenia-that-robert-kocharian-will-become-president-ter-petrossian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/04\/myth-in-armenia-that-robert-kocharian-will-become-president-ter-petrossian.html","title":{"rendered":"Myth in Armenia that Robert Kocharian will Become President: Ter-Petrossian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian National Congress (HAK) leader Levon Ter-Petrossian on Monday responded to questions sent by journalists and members of the public via email, SMS and Twitter at an outdoor Q&amp;A session held in Liberty Square where opposition supporters have been staging nonstop rallies since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the &#8220;open press conference&#8221; began, HAK spokesperson Arman Musinyan announced that they had received 400 questions since Sunday. Ter-Petrossian declared that he responded to 39 out of what had later become 500 questions, &#8220;less than 10%,&#8221; but if the people agreed to this format he would gladly continue responding to questions at such outdoor gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions he responded to dealt with recent developments in Russia \u2014 in particular, the announcement of Russian PM Vladimir Putin&#8217;s candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I considered myself a Russian expert till 1988. To assess the situation now would be incorrect not only from a political point of view. I would say if I was sure. It seems to me that a change in the country&#8217;s leadership won&#8217;t affect relations with Armenia. There is a myth that the same switching of places can happen in Armenia [i.e. former president Robert Kocharian again becoming president]. We too don&#8217;t live on the moon. We know very well that Russian support for Kocharian is empty. For three years in a row, he has been knocking on the doors of Russia&#8217;s third-level officials in order to create an aura about himself. He never reached more senior officials,&#8221; Ter-Petrossian responded.<\/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>Armenian National Congress (HAK) leader Levon Ter-Petrossian on Monday responded to questions sent by journalists and&#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":132340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,10341,11546,33003,706,33002,17366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132400"}],"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=132400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}