{"id":260755,"date":"2014-12-09T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T06:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=260755"},"modified":"2014-12-09T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T06:55:37","slug":"gas-prices-may-increase-in-armenia-due-to-dram-depreciation-haykakan-zhamanak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/12\/09\/gas-prices-may-increase-in-armenia-due-to-dram-depreciation-haykakan-zhamanak.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas Prices May Increase In Armenia Due to Dram Depreciation: Haykakan Zhamanak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Next February-March (2015) the Gazprom Armenia company may apply to the Committee on Public Services Regulation to &lsquo;adjust&rsquo; the bid for the gas tariff, writes the Haykakan Zhamanak daily. &ldquo;The issue is that the current tariff is fixed at 410 AMD per dollar, while the dollar&rsquo;s current exchange rate reaches 460 AMD. While Gazprom Armenia is buying gas from Russia with dollars ($189 per 1000 cubic meters), the Armenian consumer pays with dram, therefore the dram&rsquo;s depreciation subsequently leads Gazprom Armenia to losses,&rdquo; writes the paper.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Haykakan Zhamanak stresses that in order to avoid losses from gas tariffs, with the current exchange value, it would need to at least increase the tariff by 5.7% and consumers would no longer pay 156 AMD per cubic meter, but 164 AMD.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;However, taking into consideration the necessity of the tariff increase, which almost coincides with the time-frame of Armenia entering the EEU, it shouldn&rsquo;t be ruled out that due to political reasons the tariff increase may be delayed until the summer of 2015.&rdquo;<\/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>&#8211; However, taking into consideration the necessity of the tariff increase, which almost coincides with the time-frame of Armenia entering the EEU, it shouldn&#8217;t be ruled out that due to political reasons the tariff increase may be delayed until the summer of 2015.\u201d<!-- 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":81967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58995,10298,26372,52765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260755"}],"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=260755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}