{"id":174897,"date":"2025-08-19T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=174897"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:42:32","slug":"pashinyan-is-an-absolutely-cynical-man-without-principles-russian-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/174897\/","title":{"rendered":"Pashinyan is an absolutely cynical man without principles, Russian expert says"},"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>Alexander Martinov, Director of the Institute of the Newly Established States of Russia, commented on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s apology for his harsh remarks about the Church.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/xn--80aahjj1e.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gazeta.ru<\/a>, the expert believes that the failure of Pashinyan&rsquo;s campaign against the clergy will likely not mark the end of his political career.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He is an absolutely cynical man, without principles, without reflection. His apologies to the Church today sound just as cynical as yesterday&rsquo;s accusations. Today it is convenient for him to publicly apologize, so he did,&rdquo; Martinov said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that despite Pashinyan&rsquo;s &ldquo;retreat&rdquo; on the Church issue, Russian businessman Samvel Karapetyan&mdash;who has repeatedly criticized the Armenian leader&rsquo;s policies&mdash;remains under arrest in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Martinov, Director of the Institute of the Newly Established States of Russia, commented on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan&rsquo;s apology for his harsh remarks about the Church. According to Gazeta.ru, the expert believes that the failure of Pashinyan&rsquo;s campaign against the clergy will likely not mark the end of his political career. &ldquo;He is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":174787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174897","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=174897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174902,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174897\/revisions\/174902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}