{"id":58776,"date":"2023-09-27T23:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/former-state-minister-of-nagorno-karabakh-ruben-vardanyan-arrested-by-azerbaijan"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:35:52","slug":"former-state-minister-of-nagorno-karabakh-arrested-by-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58776","title":{"rendered":"Former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh arrested by Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Vardanyan detained as he tried to cross into Armenia in first high-profile arrest since Azerbaijani offensive<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has detained a former leader of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh government in its first high profile arrest since launching a lightning offensive last week that it said would lead to a \u201creintegration\u201d of the territory into Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Vardanyan, a wealthy businessman who had served as the state minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh republic, was detained as he tried to cross the border into Armenia on Wednesday morning, as one of more than 50,000 Armenians who have fled the region to avoid incoming Azerbaijani control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/former-state-minister-of-nagorno-karabakh-ruben-vardanyan-arrested-by-azerbaijan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Vardanyan detained as he tried to cross into Armenia in first high-profile arrest since Azerbaijani offensiveAzerbaijan has detained a former leader of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh government in its first high profile arrest since launching a l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3978,"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":[1438,1551,221,1724,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-nagorno-karabakh","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58776","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\/3978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58776\/revisions\/58777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}