{"id":167773,"date":"2012-03-12T18:27:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167773"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:29:28","slug":"armenias-first-lady-unlike-azerbaijans-not-interested-in-politics-cis-most-brilliant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/12\/armenias-first-lady-unlike-azerbaijans-not-interested-in-politics-cis-most-brilliant-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s First Lady, Unlike Azerbaijan&#8217;s, Not Interested in Politics: CIS&#8217; Most Brilliant Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Ladies of Armenia and Azerbaijan are in the top in a list of most brilliant women of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), reports MIR TV.<\/p>\n<p>According to the TV station, Armenia&#8217;s First Lady Rita Sargsyan (pictured, right) has little interest in politics. &#8220;She is more interested in patronage. Charity successfully combines with her support of culture, as Sargsyan&#8217;s career began as a kindergarten music teacher. Armenia&#8217;s First Lady organizes concerts, all the proceeds of which she transfers to orphans, the disabled and families with many children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to Mrs. Sargsyan, Azerbaijan&#8217;s First Lady, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mehriban-aliyeva.org\/en\/main\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mehriban Aliyeva<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, (pictured, left) occupies a prominent place in politics, reports MIR TV. She is a member of parliament, the head of the working group on Azerbaijan-France inter-parliamentary relations, as well as the president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Friends of Azerbaijani Culture Foundation. In addition, she is a Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the top of the list of CIS women were Ukraine&#8217;s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Russian celebrity and TV presenter Kseniya Sobchak, Soviet and Russian singer Alla Pugacheva and others.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Ladies of Armenia and Azerbaijan are in the top in a list of most brilliant women of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), reports MIR TV.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}