{"id":256329,"date":"2014-07-23T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=256329"},"modified":"2014-07-23T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T06:31:53","slug":"former-deputy-defense-minister-assumes-operations-of-mika-cement-factory-zhoghovurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/23\/former-deputy-defense-minister-assumes-operations-of-mika-cement-factory-zhoghovurd.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Deputy Defense Minister Assumes Operations of Mika-Cement Factory: Zhoghovurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The cement factory in Hrazdan, Mika-Cement, previously owned by businessman Mikhail Baghdasarov, has a new owner. According to local daily <em>Zhoghovurd<\/em>&#39;s sources, the factory was purchased by former Deputy Minister of Defense, General Gagik Melkonyan, who is preparing to resume operations very soon.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to the newspaper, Melkonyan said he only intervened for his Moscow-based friends to acquire the factory and run it, but he admitted that he will personally keep an eye on the factory&#39;s work. &quot;I might not be the manager, but it will be under my supervision, so that it doesn&#39;t end up in the same situation it was before.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe former deputy defense minister added that the new owners intend to pay off the factory&#39;s debts and pay employees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/24\/some-mika-cement-employees-received-their-overdue-wages-others-asked-to-wait-2-more-days.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>their overdue wages<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe newspaper recalls that Gagik Melkonyan was dismissed from his position ahead of March 1, 2008, upon instructions from former President of Armenia Robert Kocharian because Armenia&#39;s first president, opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian, had announced that Melkonyan had joined his ranks.&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 cement factory in Hrazdan, Mika-Cement, previously owned by businessman Mikhail Baghdasarov, has a new owner. <!-- 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":256325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56990,17011,23477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256329"}],"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=256329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}