{"id":17624,"date":"2023-08-15T11:53:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/news\/17624\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:02:21","slug":"hasarakuthyan-metc-zangvatc-sergey-smbatyanin-ehndunum-e-orpes-ir-zhamanakneri-arvesti-heros-arvestagetneri-bac-namakeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/17624\/","title":{"rendered":"A large part of our society considers Sergey Smbatyan the cultural hero of our times: Artists\u2019 open letter"},"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 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A number of famous people have joined the public demand<br>\nregarding&nbsp; the preventive detention of Founding Artistic Director and<br>\nPrincipal Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They wrote an open letter to Nikol Pashinyan and RA<br>\nProsecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, calling on them to take measures so that<br>\nSergey Smbatyan&rsquo;s significant role and invaluable contribution to the cultural<br>\nlife of Armenia be taken into consideration. They also called on relevant<br>\nauthorities to revisit the measure of restraint imposed on the maestro.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;As we have carried out many projects with Sergey<br>\nSmbatyan, we can state that a large part of our society treats him kindly and<br>\nconsiders him the cultural hero of our times who cherishes universal values.<br>\nThus, in view of his outstanding talent, we call on you to take into account<br>\nthe invaluable contribution that he has made to the development of our culture.<br>\nAll of us, Sergey Smbatyan&rsquo;s dedicated fans, are unanimous in our support for<br>\nhim and strongly stand behind him,&rdquo; reads the letter.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They intercede for Sergey Smbatyan, asking to revisit the<br>\nmeasure of restraint imposed on him and to allow him to be in the sphere where<br>\nhe belongs.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamo Seyranyan, duduk player, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Razmik Amyan, singer, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zaruhi Babayan, singer, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nune Yesayan, singer, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shushan Petrosyan, singer, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alla Levonyan, singer, Honored Artist of Armenia,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avet Barseghyan, TV host, Honored Worker of Culture of<br>\nArmenia,&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aramayis Hayrapetyan, director,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nazeni Hovhannisyan, actress,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hayk Ghevondyan (Spitaktsi Hayko), singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saro Tovmasyan, singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aram Sargsyan (Aram MP3), singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sofi Mkheyan, singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sona Rubenyan, singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iveta Mukuchyan, singer,<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Garik Papoyan, TV host, comedian, musician,&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \">Roland Gasparyan, (Reincarnation band), singer.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of famous people have joined the public demand regarding&nbsp; the preventive detention of Founding Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan. They wrote an open letter to Nikol Pashinyan and RA Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, calling on them to take measures so that Sergey Smbatyan&rsquo;s significant role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}