{"id":299402,"date":"2020-03-13T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=299402"},"modified":"2020-03-13T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:17:51","slug":"native-of-nk-and-former-journalist-of-hetq-appointed-new-md-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/03\/13\/native-of-nk-and-former-journalist-of-hetq-appointed-new-md-spokesperson.html","title":{"rendered":"Native of NK and Former Journalist of &#8220;Hetq&#8221; Appointed New MD Spokesperson\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the resignation of much-criticized Artsrun Hovhannisyan, Armenia&#8217;s Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan appointed Shushan Stepanyan as the new spokesperson of the Ministry on March 12, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to her official biography, she is a native of Hadrut town of Nagorno Karabakh. A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan State University Stepanyan worked as an investigative journalist at Hetq from 2007-2009.<\/p>\n<p>She enlisted herself into contractual military service in 2009 as a correspondent to the official newspaper of the Ministry &#8220;Armenian Soldier&#8221; and remained in the various departments of the newspaper until 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Shushan Stepanyan was a correspondent to &#8220;Armed Forced Media&#8221; state enterprise in 2018 and has been serving in the Armed Forces of Armenia since 2019. Stepanyan has a military rank of Major, has been awarded various military medals and honorary mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Stepanyan&#8217;s father, Shahen Stepanyan, was a warrior during the war, was awarded &#8220;Combat Cross&#8221; medal by Artsakh Republic, according to the press statement of the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299368\" src=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Shushan_Stepanyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/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>Stepanyan&#8217;s father, Shahen Stepanyan, was a warrior during the war, was awarded &#8220;Combat Cross&#8221; medal by Artsakh Republic, according to the press statement of the Ministry of Defense.<!-- 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":2,"featured_media":299371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,66041],"tags":[50639,77781,77779,77780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299402"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}