{"id":270047,"date":"2015-12-14T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270047"},"modified":"2015-12-14T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:08:51","slug":"36-of-armenians-support-eurasian-economic-union-membership-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/14\/36-of-armenians-support-eurasian-economic-union-membership-survey-shows.html","title":{"rendered":"36% of Armenians Support Eurasian Economic Union Membership, Survey Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/hcav.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/%D4%B4%D5%A5%D5%BA%D5%AB-%D5%B0%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%BD-%D5%A9%D5%A5%D5%9E-%D5%B0%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BE-%D5%B0%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%B8%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6-12-12-2015.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">survey<\/span><\/a> conducted by the Helsinki Citizens&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office, 36.1% of Armenia&#39;s population support the country&#39;s membership into pro-Russian structures, while 24.3% of respondents spoke in favour of a pro-European approach. The study was conducted in 2015 on a sample of 1200 randomly selected citizens aged 18 and older.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t12.6% of respondents believe that Armenia should join both pro-Russian (Eurasian Economic Union) and pro-European (European Union) structures; 8.3% are convinced the country should join neither the EEU nor the EU. 18.2% of respondents were undecided, while 0.6% refused to answer the question.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA similar study conducted by &ldquo;Leading Group of Social Research&rdquo; NGO in 2014 had revealed an almost identical result: 38.4% and 24.8 % of respondents supported Armenia&#39;s membership into the EEU and the EU, respectively. 11.8% said they wanted Armenia to join both the unions, while 10.1% didn&#39;t want to see Armenia in either of the structures.<\/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>24.8 % of respondents supported Armenia&#8217;s membership into the EEU and the EU, respectively. 11.8% said they wanted Armenia to join both the unions, while 10.1% didn&#8217;t want to see Armenia in either of the structures&#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":270044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57048,14816,55215,15367,54712,15734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270047"}],"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=270047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}