{"id":255385,"date":"2014-06-26T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=255385"},"modified":"2014-06-26T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:16:06","slug":"why-defense-ministry-hides-amount-of-compensation-to-families-of-deceased-soldiers-hraparak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/26\/why-defense-ministry-hides-amount-of-compensation-to-families-of-deceased-soldiers-hraparak.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Defense Ministry Hides Amount of Compensation to Families of Deceased Soldiers: Hraparak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia (RA) keeps a secret how much it has allocated in the current year in connection with the deaths of soldiers and military officers, reports local daily <em>Hraparak<\/em>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe newspaper notes that by declassifying this information, the number of victims in the army for the past 6 months will be known.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe ministry provides more than 2 million AMD (about $4,900 USD) to every family of a deceased soldier. According to RA Ministry of Defense spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan, there is no significant difference in the amount allocated to families of officers and those of rank-and-file soldiers. The military unit transfers an additional 200,000 to 1 million AMD ($490&ndash;$2,450) &mdash; not officially but as moral compensation.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;The amount of the money is due to the circumstances and causes of death; for example, in cases of suicide or incidents qualified as suicide no money is transferred,&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>The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia (RA) keeps a secret how much it has allocated in the current year in connection with the deaths of soldiers and military officers.<!-- 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":231788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10329,12009,15583,18698,56394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255385"}],"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=255385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}