{"id":249453,"date":"2014-02-24T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249453"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:30:35","slug":"after-shaming-armenian-oligarch-vendor-banned-from-selling-herbs-outside-his-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/24\/after-shaming-armenian-oligarch-vendor-banned-from-selling-herbs-outside-his-supermarket.html","title":{"rendered":"After Shaming Armenian Oligarch, Vendor Banned from Selling Herbs Outside His Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The manager of Yerevan City supermarket in Yerevan&#39;s Shengavit district prohibited Flora Torosyan from selling her herbs outside the supermarket after she urged Yerevan City owner, MP Samvel Aleksanyan not to lie when responding to journalists&#39; questions, as well as to &quot;read God&#39;s Commandments from time to time.&quot;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an interview with Epress.am, Torosyan (pictured) said she had a dispute with Aleksanyan on the opening day of the new shopping center Yerevan Mall, when she heard him, talking to reporters, denying that either he or his family owns a business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;I said, why are you lying? Aren&#39;t the [Yerevan] Cities yours? Have you no shame? And Lfik [the nickname the public gives to Samvel Aleksanyan] says, &#8216;Who&#8217;s this crazy [woman]?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Why am I crazy? Read the Bible and you&#8217;ll see that the Commandments forbid lying.&#8217; He relented. Then I said: I&#8217;m a businessman, you&#8217;re a businessman; you&#8217;re a father of many children, I&#8217;m a grandmother of many children; you get benefits, I get benefits; I said, so to whom do all those [Yerevan] Cities belong?&quot; she said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Torosyan, immediately the day after, Yerevan City manager Tigran (she didn&#39;t know his last name) chased her away from the store.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;He kicked my box [stand] of greens to turn it over, then demanded, &#39;Don&#39;t sit here and don&#39;t enter our store.&#39; But even the police doesn&#39;t forbid me from selling greens in this neighborhood; the district council knows too, that I have no husband, I feed a large family, and that&#39;s how we live,&quot; she said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor 3 days now Torosyan has been unable to sell her herbs outside the supermarket.<\/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 manager of Yerevan City supermarket in Yerevan&#8217;s Shengavit district prohibited Flora Torosyan from selling her herbs outside the supermarket after she urged&#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":249446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52828,21388,21825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249453"}],"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=249453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}