{"id":247535,"date":"2014-01-24T17:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=247535"},"modified":"2014-01-24T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:21:34","slug":"shots-on-armenia-azerbaijan-border-tied-to-black-january-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/01\/24\/shots-on-armenia-azerbaijan-border-tied-to-black-january-defense-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Shots on Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Tied to &#8216;Black January&#8217;: Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Experience shows that tensions flare on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border when there is an important political event or shots are associated with a day having historical significance, said Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to him, the shots fired from Azerbaijan in recent days are associated with &quot;Black January&quot;. Recall, on the night of January 19&ndash;20, 1990, Soviet troops took violent action to suppress political opposition in Baku.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDon&#39;t forget, the defense minister said, that January was &quot;black&quot; also for Armenians, who were subjected to pogroms in Sumgait and Baku.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsked if there is a threat of renewed hostilities, Ohanyan said there&#39;s always a threat, but at this moment such a development is unlikely to happen. Nevertheless, the Armenian side is always ready for any development, he added.<\/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>Experience shows that tensions flare on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border when there is an important political event or shots are associated with&#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":247486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37161,12998,50982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247535"}],"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=247535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}