{"id":272574,"date":"2016-05-10T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272574"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:12:02","slug":"aleksanyan-recovering-damages-for-flour-aid-sent-to-karabakh-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/10\/aleksanyan-recovering-damages-for-flour-aid-sent-to-karabakh-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Aleksanyan &#8216;Recovering Damages&#8217; for Flour Aid Sent to Karabakh: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAfter sending &ldquo;a few trucks&rdquo; of flour aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, MP from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, oligarch Samvel Aleksanyan has decided to immediately &ldquo;recover damages,&rdquo; raising the price per bag of flour by nearly a dollar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;For over 15 years, the Baghramyan milling plant of Aleksanyan&#39;s Alex-Grig company has been dictating the price of flour in Armenia. Early this year, the plant was selling 50-kilo flour bags at 29,2 dollars, and when they began importing flour from Russia, the price gradually dropped to 22 dollars. On May 2, however, the price per a 50-kilo bag of flour changed to 23 dollars. To cover himself up, Aleksanyan has ordered that Manana Grain &ndash; the second largest flour company in the market &ndash; also raise the price. These two companies hold 80% of flour market; prices at the other, smaller plants have mainly remained unchanged,&rdquo; Hraparak writes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tManana Grain owner Gurgen Nikoghosyan told the daily that the price increase was caused by rising wheat prices in Russia. &ldquo;The Russian wheat market, as a matter of fact, has not changed much since the beginning of April, and a ton of wheat still costs 10-12 thousand roubles. Significant changes haven&#39;t been observed in the dollar-rouble exchange rate either &#8211; 66-67 roubles per dollar in the last two months. These observations give reason to believe that not Aleksanyan, but each and every one of us sent aid to Karabakh,&rdquo; the paper stresses.<\/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>Manana Grain owner Gurgen Nikoghosyan told the daily that the price increase was caused by rising wheat prices in Russia. \u201cThe Russian wheat market, as a matter of fact, has not changed much since the beginning&#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":272569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60529,25281,10708,22402,21388,31077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272574"}],"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=272574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}