{"id":20984,"date":"2020-07-26T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T05:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/moscows-fruit-stalls-become-frontline-of-a-border-skirmish-2000-miles-away"},"modified":"2020-07-26T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T05:31:15","slug":"moscows-fruit-stalls-become-frontline-of-a-border-skirmish-2000-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20984","title":{"rendered":"Moscow\u2019s fruit stalls become frontline of a border skirmish  2,000 miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan has provoked anger and boycotts throughout the two countries\u2019 diasporas<\/p>\n<p>When Saribek Gevorkyan heard reports that Food City, a vast food distribution centre owned by entrepreneurs from Azerbaijan, had suddenly blocked Armenian farmers and turned away 50 truckloads of fresh apricots, he took action. He offered space for free in his own shopping centre to the farmers, helping to host a fruit rescue mission that its organisers have dubbed \u201cOperation Apricot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told our friends that in the Russian Federation nobody can close their doors to us Armenians,\u201d boomed Gevorkyan, the owner of the Shelkovy Put (\u201cSilk Way\u201d) shopping centre. \u201cThe Russian Federation is open for everyone to come here, make money, and sell goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/moscows-fruit-stalls-become-frontline-of-a-border-skirmish-2000-miles-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan has provoked anger and boycotts throughout the two countries\u2019 diasporasWhen Saribek Gevorkyan heard reports that Food City, a vast food distribution centre owned by entrepreneurs from Azerbaijan, had suddenly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}