{"id":239601,"date":"2013-09-20T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=239601"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:48:48","slug":"armenian-finance-minstrys-tender-staged-winners-decided-beforehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/09\/20\/armenian-finance-minstrys-tender-staged-winners-decided-beforehand.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Finance Minstry&#8217;s Tender &#8216;Staged&#8217;: Winners Decided Beforehand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Europe has allocated quite a large sum of money to the Armenian government to develop the IT sector, reports Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun, citing its own sources.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe local newspaper reports that the funds (in effect, grants and loans) must be directed toward those IT companies that apply and win the tender.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Meanwhile, according to the paper, the RA Ministry of Finance, which received the funds, is distributing the money among&nbsp;companies close to the ministry. The tenders are only a formality, as the &quot;winners&quot; were decided from the start.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLeading IT companies are understandably concerned and are preparing to take action in the near future, reports Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">To read the article in full, please read today&#39;s issue of <em>Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun<\/em> (in Armenian only).<\/span><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/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>Meanwhile, according to the paper, the RA Ministry of Finance, which received the funds, is distributing the money among companies close to the ministry&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14370,50099,50101,50100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239601"}],"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=239601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}