{"id":272746,"date":"2016-05-20T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272746"},"modified":"2016-05-20T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:13:59","slug":"armenian-lawmakers-force-their-assistants-to-donate-money-to-soldiers-families-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/20\/armenian-lawmakers-force-their-assistants-to-donate-money-to-soldiers-families-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Lawmakers Force Their Assistants to Donate Money to Soldiers&#8217; Families: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHraparak newspaper reports that a number of Armenian lawmakers have been persuading their assistants to sign an agreement, according to which, they willingly give away 1 percent of their salaries to families of soldiers who were either killed or injured during the&nbsp;fighting that broke out in early April in Nagorno-Karabakh. The document addressed to the parliament&#39;s chief of staff Hrayr Tovmasyan, however, states that the employees have chosen to donate the money of their own accord.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe form has been going around in the National Assembly for a long while now, and the forced volunteerism has angered the staff. An assistant to one of the MPs &#8211; who wished to remain anonymous &ndash; told the newspaper that &ldquo;they are yet again using the soldiers&#39; names to rob us of our money.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;According to rough estimates, with an AMD 128 million monthly payroll, donations will reach nearly 16 million drams a year. No small amount of money, of course, if it does indeed serve its purpose. But here arises a further question: how long will the state shift its duties to the citizens,&rdquo; Hraparak writes.<\/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 form has been going around in the National Assembly for a long while now, and the forced volunteerism has angered the staff. An assistant to one of the MPs &#8211; who wished to remain anonymous&#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":255879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10329,64665,64666,10665,38015,13901,15891,20940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272746"}],"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=272746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}