{"id":249344,"date":"2014-02-21T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249344"},"modified":"2014-02-21T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:15:12","slug":"missing-signs-renaming-yanukovych-square-in-armenia-to-slain-maidan-activist-sergei-nigoyan-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/21\/missing-signs-renaming-yanukovych-square-in-armenia-to-slain-maidan-activist-sergei-nigoyan-square.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing: Signs Renaming Yanukovych Square in Armenia to Slain Maidan Activist Sergei Nigoyan Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAll evidence of renaming a square in the Armenian city of Spitak in honor of deceased Ukrainian opposition activist of Armenian descent Sergei Nigoyan (also spelled Serhiy Nihoyan) was removed. Posters with the inscription &quot;Sergei Nigoyan Square&quot; (written in Ukrainian) that activists plastered over a sign identifying the square named after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych were removed early this morning. This news was conveyed to Epress.am by Spitak City Hall representative Anahit Gyulazyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Last night, a few people &mdash; but not Spitak residents &mdash; pasted leaflets but in the morning they were gone,&quot; said the secretary of staff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service (Azatutyun) earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/25271457.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that the act of renaming the square was implemented by activists of Civil Contract, MP Nikol Pashinyan&#39;s new initiative. On the sign bearing the square&#39;s name, activists had stuck posters with the inscription &quot;Sergei Nigoyan Square: Small Maidan&quot; in Armenian and Ukrainian. &nbsp;Recall, Nigoyan was one of the first victims of Euromaidan in Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe square in Spitak was named in honor of Yanukovych because he directed the work of a reconstruction team that arrived in Spitak after the devastating earthquake in 1988.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Photo credit: Araratnews.am<\/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>All evidence of renaming a square in the Armenian city of Spitak in honor of deceased Ukrainian opposition activist of Armenian descent Sergei Nigoyan&#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":249306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52864,53452,53511,52865,11294,53512,28507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249344"}],"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=249344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}