{"id":283632,"date":"2018-02-13T17:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283632"},"modified":"2018-02-14T02:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:01:28","slug":"nubarashen-residents-send-sewage-waste-as-gift-to-yerevan-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/13\/nubarashen-residents-send-sewage-waste-as-gift-to-yerevan-mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe people breathe in this stench, so you have to, too,\u201d opposition Yerkir Tsirani member Marina Khachatryan announced today at a meeting of Yerevan\u2019s Council of Elders before \u00a0attempting to put jarfulls of sewage water and waste from Nubarashen on mayor Taron Margaryan\u2019s table.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>The oppositionist\u2019s actions<\/strong><\/span> were prompted by the Monday protest rally of residents of a number of apartments blocks close to the Nubarashen prison in Yerevan, who temporarily blocked the road to the prison, complaining that sewage leaks from the prison were causing foul stench in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>As Khachatryan tried to approach Margaryan\u2019s table, the mayor ordered no one in particular to \u201cstop her, quickly!\u201d A number of Republicans then surrounded the oppositionist and tried to take away the jars, spilling their contents on the floor as a result. The situation quickly escalated to insults \u00a0&#8211; \u201cidiot,\u201d \u201cfool\u201d &#8211; and physical force against Khachatryan and another Yerkir Tsirani representative Sona Aghekyan. The latter received more serious injuries from Republican karate fighter Gor Vardanyan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FPq4d2laO6o?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once the passions had calmed, mayor Margaryan warned the Yerkir Tsirani members that he would remove the faction from the Council if they \u201cever try to \u00a0behave like this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yerkir Tsirani leader Zaruhi Postanjyan, in turn, told reporters that the sewage waste was a gift from Nubarashen residents to mayor Taron Margaryan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/avagani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-283626\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/avagani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the resumption of the meeting, opposition Yelk bloc member David Khazhakyan took the floor to condemn his colleagues\u2019 behaviour: \u201cOur meeting was simply disrupted. What happened today can never benefit anyone, including those who organized all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives\u2019 behaviour as \u201cunbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.\u201d They went on to justify the force used against the oppositionists as \u201cself-defense.\u201d<\/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>Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives\u2019 behaviour as \u201cunbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.\u201d<!-- 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":283625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66030],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283632"}],"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=283632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}