{"id":262400,"date":"2015-02-10T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=262400"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:48:30","slug":"since-march-1st-2008-kim-balayan%e2%80%99s-sons-keep-getting-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/02\/10\/since-march-1st-2008-kim-balayan%e2%80%99s-sons-keep-getting-promoted.html","title":{"rendered":"Since March 1st, 2008, Kim Balayan\u2019s Sons Keep Getting Promoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenia&rsquo;s Constitutional Court member Kim Balayan&rsquo;s first son Davit Balayan, has received a promotion and been given the title of presiding judge of the Court of First Instance of Shengavit District, replacing Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan&rsquo;s father. Until now, Davit Babayan was a judge at the Court of General Jurisdiction of Ajapnyak and Davtashen Administrative Districts.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Zhoghovurt daily stresses that after the March 1st, 2008 incidents, Kim Balayan&rsquo;s family members&rsquo; official promotions have&nbsp;not stopped. The paper recalled an unclassified document released by Wikileaks which stated that US&nbsp;embassy officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/02\/kocharian-fixed-court-ruling-against-ter-petrossian-constitutional-court-justice-to-us-officials.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">were approached by Valery Poghosyan<\/span><\/a>, one of Armenia&rsquo;s nine Constitutional Court justices, on Mar. 6, 2008, for a secret meeting in which he declared that then president of Armenia Robert Kocharian fixed the court&rsquo;s upcoming Mar. 8 decision to decide against the complaint by ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian alleging vote fraud in the disputed February 19 presidential election.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">According to the document,&nbsp;Kim Balayan was then promised that his son Tigran Balayan would be given the position of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, if he voted for a verdict against Ter-Petrosyan. Balayan was later given the position.<\/span><\/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>Kim Balayan was then promised that his son Tigran Balayan would be given the position of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, if he voted for a verdict against Ter-Petrosyan. Balayan was&#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":262378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59893,14794,16625,56056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262400"}],"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=262400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}