{"id":175392,"date":"2025-08-21T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=175392"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:58:00","slug":"putins-special-envoy-condemns-demolition-of-monuments-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/175392\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s special envoy condemns demolition of monuments in Azerbaijan"},"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>Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russian President Special Envoy for International Cultural Cooperation, has condemned the demolition of monuments in Azerbaijan. He made the comments in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/politics\/news\/2025\/08\/21\/26541698.shtml?updated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The destruction and desecration of monuments to cultural figures&mdash;wherever it takes place&mdash;cannot but provoke an extremely negative reaction,&rdquo; Shvydkoy said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed regret over Baku&rsquo;s attempts to politicize the cultural sphere.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Politics lives in the present, while cultural relations are eternal, and this must be understood,&rdquo; Shvydkoy stated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russian President Special Envoy for International Cultural Cooperation, has condemned the demolition of monuments in Azerbaijan. He made the comments in an interview with RBC. &ldquo;The destruction and desecration of monuments to cultural figures&mdash;wherever it takes place&mdash;cannot but provoke an extremely negative reaction,&rdquo; Shvydkoy said. He expressed regret over Baku&rsquo;s attempts to politicize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":175356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,41,53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-artsakh","category-culture","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175392","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=175392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175393,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175392\/revisions\/175393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}