{"id":264017,"date":"2015-04-04T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=264017"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T10:14:42","slug":"armenian-authorities-want-to-adopt-the-russian-model-of-governorates-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/04\/04\/armenian-authorities-want-to-adopt-the-russian-model-of-governorates-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Authorities Want to Adopt the Russian Model of Governorates: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The system of territorial administration of Armenia needs reforms, ruling Republican Party MP Vahram Baghdasaryan said in an interview with Armenian <em>Hraparak<\/em> daily.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe reporter of the daily asked Baghdasaryan&nbsp;whether there was any truth to the rumors that after completing the community enlargement initiative, the Armenian Government plans to enlarge the country&#39;s provinces, according to which, Vayots Dzor is to be merged into Syunik province; Ararat &ndash; into Armavir; Lori &ndash; into Tavush; Aragatsotn &ndash; into Shirak.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;It is still unclear [which provinces will merge into each other], it hasn&#39;t been discussed yet. I do agree, however, that the territorial structure needs changes. Take the Russian governorates <em>(structural subdivisions of the Russian Federation &ndash; Epress.am)<\/em>, they hold broad autonomy. Our administrative divisions, as such, are not endowed with special autonomy. For a small country like ours, to tell the truth, the number of provinces is rather large. Moreover, there are several models; there is the one of going back to the previous regional system, there is the model of enlargement&#8230;&rdquo; Baghdasaryan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen asked about the timeframe during which these changes would be made, Baghdasaryan said it would become clear before the implementation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/03\/12\/serzh-sargsyan-begins-discussions-with-political-parties-about-constitutional-reforms.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">constitutional reforms<\/span><\/a>. &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 reporter of the daily inquired whether there was any truth to the rumors that after completing the community enlargement initiative, the Armenian Government plans to enlarge the country&#8217;s provinces, according to which&#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":264010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60669,54731,56103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264017"}],"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=264017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}