{"id":168728,"date":"2012-03-15T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=168728"},"modified":"2012-03-15T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:12:34","slug":"azerbaijan-vow-to-pay-out-compensation-for-lost-soviet-era-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/15\/azerbaijan-vow-to-pay-out-compensation-for-lost-soviet-era-savings.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Vow to Pay Out Compensation for Lost Soviet-Era Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan will compensate depositors who lost their savings when the Soviet banking system collapsed two decades ago, according to a government decree signed by President Ilham Aliyev yesterday, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-15\/azeris-vow-to-pay-out-compensation-for-lost-soviet-era-savings.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>People who held retail accounts at the Azeri branch of the Soviet Union\u2019s savings bank can apply to Kapital Bank ASC for compensation by the end of this year, the government said in the decree, published by the country\u2019s state news service Azartac.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities will spend 400 million manat ($509 million) to 500 million manat to return 4.8 billion Soviet-era rubles of lost savings, said Qubad Ibadoglu, head of the Center for Economic Studies in the Azeri capital, Baku, citing the research group\u2019s estimates.<\/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>Azerbaijan will compensate depositors who lost their savings when the Soviet banking system collapsed two decades ago, according to a&#8230; <!-- 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":168734,"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\/168728"}],"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=168728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}