{"id":254584,"date":"2014-06-12T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254584"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:07:37","slug":"armenias-state-electricity-company-in-debt-but-officials-salaries-to-be-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/12\/armenias-state-electricity-company-in-debt-but-officials-salaries-to-be-increased.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s State Electricity Company in Debt, But Officials&#8217; Salaries to be Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Just two days ago RA Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) Chair Robert Nazaryan (pictured) said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/10\/electricity-price-in-armenia-to-increase-on-august-1.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>electricity tariffs would increase<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by 3.8&ndash;4.3 AMD\/kWh on August 1 because Electric Networks of Armenia is operating at a loss, has a debt of 16 billion AMD, and so on. As reported by local daily Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun, the population didn&#39;t yet have time to recover from this news before the National Assembly yesterday made an even more astonishing decision: the salaries of the country&#39;s president, prime minister, parliamentary speaker, MPs and civil servants will increase from July 1.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;[Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s [monthly] salary will increase by 203% &mdash; from 436 thousand to 1.223 million dram. To satisfy the monetary demands of high-ranking officials, 35 billion dram will be allocated from the [state] budget,&quot; reports the paper. &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>&#8220;[Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan&#8217;s [monthly] salary will increase by 203% \u2014 from 436 thousand to 1.223 million dram&#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":254516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34940,10463,50949,50948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254584"}],"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=254584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}