{"id":240041,"date":"2013-09-26T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=240041"},"modified":"2013-09-26T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:12:21","slug":"armenian-mp-reported-russian-border-guards-actions-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/09\/26\/armenian-mp-reported-russian-border-guards-actions-to-police.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian MP Reported Russian Border Guards&#8217; Actions to Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan reported to police an earlier incident whereby three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers stopped her car on an interstate highway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;I already called the police. I am going to monitor [the situation] and demand that the Armenian authorities give a legal assessment of what happened,&quot; she told Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe MP confirmed that along with the Russian border guards were Armenian Ministry of Defense troops, who, according to Postanjyan, were conscripts and said they didn&#39;t have the authority to intervene in the Russian border guards&#39; actions.<\/p>\n<p>\tRecall, Russian border guards near Lichk village in Syunik marz&nbsp;Wednesday&nbsp;evening stopped vehicles carrying Heritage Party members, who were campaigning for the parliament elections in electoral district no. 38. The guards blocked the vehicles&#39; path then broke the camera of David Hakobyan, who was part of the campaign team along with Postanjyan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tAn Epress.am correspondent asked the police whether, under Armenian law, third-country border guards have the right to stop and check cars, or whether that is the right only of Armenian Police. Police officer Armen Malkhasyan responded: &quot;An investigation of this is underway in the Meghri Division. We&#39;ll answer when it concludes.&quot;<\/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>The MP confirmed that along with the Russian border guards were Armenian Ministry of Defense troops, who, according to Postanjyan&#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":208944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50230,17082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240041"}],"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=240041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}