{"id":250578,"date":"2014-03-13T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=250578"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T07:30:35","slug":"armenias-first-lady-organized-international-womens-day-concert-with-funds-from-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/13\/armenias-first-lady-organized-international-womens-day-concert-with-funds-from-state-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s First Lady Organized International Women&#8217;s Day Concert with Funds from State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s wife, Rita Sargsyan (pictured), on March 8 organized a concert for about a thousand women at the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, reports local daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe concert became memorable by the fact that the presenter, Hrant Tokhatyan, from the stage telephoned Serzh Sargsyan and asked him to congratulate the women on International Women&#39;s Day. And he got the president&#39;s number from his wife, Rita Sargsyan, who was in attendance.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe opposition paper reports that the concert was organized not at Rita and Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s expense, but at the expense of the state budget.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn the agenda of today&#39;s government meeting is a proposal to provide 22.4 million AMD for compensation to cover the concert&#39;s expenses. The issue will be raised by RA Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan and the money will be donated to the concert organizer, 70 years of Armenian Jazz non-governmental organization.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;For the wider modern society, International Women&#39;s Day is one of the most loved and in demand [holidays], and the implementation of this program attaches great importance to the aim of raising and redefining the role of the Armenian woman through a concert program,&quot; reads the justification for the allocation of state funds.<\/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>Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s wife, Rita Sargsyan, on March 8 organized a concert for about a thousand women at the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.<!-- 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":250562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22710,22709,23055,39217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250578"}],"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=250578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}