{"id":277204,"date":"2017-01-12T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=277204"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T08:44:56","slug":"armenian-tv-journalist-pardoned-and-to-be-reinstated-to-his-job-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/01\/12\/armenian-tv-journalist-pardoned-and-to-be-reinstated-to-his-job-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian TV Journalist ‘Pardoned’ and to Be Reinstated to His Job: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political commentator Petros Ghazaryan, the anchor of Kentron TV\u2019s Urvagits program who, according to previous reports<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, had been fired from the channel, will be back on the air next week, Kentron TV director Edgar Avagyan told Armtimes.com, insisting that Ghazaryan was only on vacation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has changed; Petros is currently on vacation, and I have not spoken to him yet. He is the author of ‘Urvagits,’ and it is obvious that when he returns to work, he will still be its anchor. Petros, like all of our other employees, have yearly vacations. We knew of the fact that Petros was to go on vacation two months before it happened, so in this respect I had nothing to tell him. There’s nothing extraordinary here,\u201d Avagyan said.<\/p>\n

Recall, on December 14 Ghazaryan\u2019s Urvagits hosted comedian Sergey Danielyan who has recently created a satirical political party called \u201cActive Civil Step\u201d (the abbreviation of which spells \u201cshit\u201d in Armenian). The episode, however, was subsequently removed from Kentron TV\u2019s Youtube channel, and local media reported that Ghazaryan was fired from the channel, to be replaced by former Shant TV and Public TV of Armenia political commentator Nver Mnatsakanyan.<\/p>\n

Hraparak newspaper, however, now writes that \u201cthere was in fact a conflict between the channel and the journalist, but he has been pardoned.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the episode with Danielyan, Ghazaryan, a critic of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, had commented on the comedian\u2019s initiative, saying that Armenia did not actually need the comedian\u2019s party for plundering the state budget since \u201cthere is already one main corrupt political party in the country. What\u2019s the use for your party? [The plundering] is already being done quite nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 14 Ghazaryan\u2019s Urvagits hosted comedian Sergey Danielyan who has recently created a satirical political party called \u201cActive Civil Step\u201d (the abbreviation of which spells \u201cshit\u201d in Armenian)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66041],"tags":[66187,28644,28643,66186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277204"}],"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=277204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}