{"id":11814,"date":"2019-05-31T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/in-the-library-ani-mejlumyan\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:41:34","slug":"in-the-library-ani-mejlumyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2019\/05\/31\/11814\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Library: Ani Mejlumyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eurasianet<\/a> journalist Ani Mejlumyan has been covering Armenian sports for many years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Chelsea-Arsenal soccer match in Baku on May 29 and the absence of Henrikh Mkhitaryan made a great noise, becoming a topic of international news regarding Armenia, Azerbaijan and Artsakh.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is one of the UEFA\u2019s most scandalous scandals in terms of racism and discrimination. Naturally, it was bad PR for both Azerbaijan and the UEFA, and for Armenia it was good. But Armenia was rather passive,\u201d said Ani. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If the fans were ethnic Armenians, they wouldn\u2019t be given a visa. And in Ani Mejlumyan\u2019s opinion, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia could have made better use of the situation, emphasizing the violations of human rights and the freedom of movement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Soccer became politics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe stadium was half empty. I think this will be a good lesson for the UEFA, which didn\u2019t manage to make as much money as it had hoped,\u201d said Ani.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Many media outlets and bloggers raised a question as to why the game is taking place in Baku, and what happens when the Azerbaijani Socar oil company continues to finance the games and Armenian teams and fans will not be able to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JxgI8cMfuNk\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the drawer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAe-1Lv1KYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Street Hooligans<\/a> is a cruel story about soccer fans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the center of this English drama is a journalist, who accidentally appears and becomes friends with soccer fans and takes part in a fight for the sake of the team and becomes more free and courageous and then understands\u2026 that he is losing a more valuable thing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the film, you will not find scenes of the game, bloody fights about soccer is a daily occurrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eurasianet journalist Ani Mejlumyan has been covering Armenian sports for many years. The Chelsea-Arsenal soccer match in Baku on May 29 and the absence of Henrikh Mkhitaryan made a great noise, becoming a topic of international news regarding Armenia, Azerbaijan and Artsakh. \u201cThis is one of the UEFA\u2019s most scandalous scandals in terms of<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2019\/05\/31\/11814\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-library","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}