{"id":250073,"date":"2014-03-04T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=250073"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:55:09","slug":"russian-economic-crisis-may-affect-armenia-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/04\/russian-economic-crisis-may-affect-armenia-paper.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Economic Crisis May Affect Armenia: Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The unprecedented financial crisis that began in Russia might have a direct impact on Armenia&#39;s economy, reports local daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em>. The newspaper notes that first and foremost, the crisis will lead to a reduction in private&nbsp;remittances from Russia. Note, many Armenian households <a href=\"http:\/\/ijoc.org\/index.php\/ijoc\/article\/view\/1810\/992\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>depend on remittances<\/strong><\/span><\/a> from family members in Russia (who are often there as labor migrants) for survival.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnly yesterday Russian stocks fell by 13%. The dollar reached 37 rubles, the lowest figure in the history of the Russian currency. The reason for the economic downturn, reports the Armenian paper, is the situation in Ukraine. <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> recalls that the ruble showed a tendency to depreciate, while stocks fell also during the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.&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>The unprecedented financial crisis that began in Russia might have a direct impact on Armenia&#8217;s economy, reports local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.<!-- 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":250046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10708,53720,10254,12920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250073"}],"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=250073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}