{"id":68127,"date":"2011-02-18T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=68127"},"modified":"2011-02-18T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T14:51:07","slug":"sochi-armenians-advised-to-solve-their-problems-in-their-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/18\/sochi-armenians-advised-to-solve-their-problems-in-their-homeland.html","title":{"rendered":"Sochi Armenians Advised to Solve their Problems in their Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov didn&#8217;t permit the monument dedicated to Armenian national liberation movement member General Andranik Ozanyan to be erected, said the mayor himself, speaking to Azerbaijani journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The monument was to be installed in the village of Vovkivka in Sochi&#8217;s Lazarevski district. The sculptor of the monument, People&#8217;s Artist of Armenia Marat Minasyan, worked on the statue for nearly 4 years. The idea of erecting the monument came from the Armenian community in Lazarevski, many of whom are descendants of those who managed to escape from the genocide in Ottoman Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the monument was paid for through public donations. Apart from Armenians, local Cossacks, whose ancestors had fought side-by-side with General Ozanyan&#8217;s men, also donated.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Turkish and Azerbaijani diplomats found out about the monument, they promised to do everything possible to prevent it from being erected.<\/p>\n<p>Baku-based APA news agency reports that Sochi&#8217;s mayor, speaking to Azerbaijani journalists, said, &#8220;Never has such a thing happened and it never will. If someone wants to erect a monument, please, do so \u2014 in your homeland. We are hospitable and we love everyone \u2014 all are our brothers. But there are political issues; these must be solved at home and not here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Yerkramas.org<\/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>Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov didn&#8217;t permit the monument dedicated to Armenian national liberation movement member General Andranik&#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":68005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22159,22158,10229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68127"}],"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=68127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}