{"id":154667,"date":"2025-05-20T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=154667"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:37:34","slug":"state-duma-calls-on-armenian-authorities-to-punish-authors-of-poster-insulting-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/154667\/","title":{"rendered":"State Duma calls on Armenian authorities to punish authors of poster insulting Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Those who hang posters with insults directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin should be punished in the harshest manner, Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma&rsquo;s Committee on International Affairs, told <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ru\/cis\/v-gosdume-obratilis-k-vlastyam-armenii-iz-za-skandalnogo-plakata-s-putinym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEWS.ru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chepa noted that these people are acting for money, not in the interests of their country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are always provocateurs. I would like to urge the Armenian authorities to prevent those who are trying to escalate the situation, who do not act in their country&rsquo;s interests, and who are motivated by money. These provocateurs must be punished severely. If they don&rsquo;t do this, such provocations will recur in the country and may lead to internal unrest,&rdquo; Chepa stated.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Armenian activists hung a poster in Yerevan with insults directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Arman Babajanyan, leader of the pro-European For the Republic Party, posted a photo of it on his Facebook page. The poster was displayed on the Kyiv Bridge and near the Russian embassy in Yerevan.<\/p>\n<p>The website noted that the action was carried out immediately before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov&rsquo;s visit to Yerevan, which is scheduled for May 20-21.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who hang posters with insults directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin should be punished in the harshest manner, Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma&rsquo;s Committee on International Affairs, told NEWS.ru. Chepa noted that these people are acting for money, not in the interests of their country. &ldquo;There are always provocateurs. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":154438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}