{"id":282571,"date":"2017-10-24T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282571"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:57:18","slug":"armenian-students-protest-possible-amendments-to-law-on-military-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/24\/armenian-students-protest-possible-amendments-to-law-on-military-duty.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Students Protest Possible Amendments to Law on Military Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The expected amendments to the Armenian law &#8220;On Military Duty and Military Service&#8221;, according to which draft deferments will only be granted to those students who would enter into an agreement with the Defense Ministry to serve in the armed forces as contract officers for 3 years after graduation, have driven the students of the Yerevan State University to create an initiative named \u201cFor the Development of Science.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the formation of the initiative, we began raising awareness among students about the expected amendments and the risks that the [bill drafted by the Defense Ministry] entails,\u201d future art critic, second-year student Monte Matevosyan said in an interview for Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>The students are convinced that the amendments will no doubt deal a serious blow to education and science, while the Ministry of Defense \u201cis trying to solve its own problems at the expense of education.\u201d The students\u2019 desire to avoid compulsory military service, according to Monte Matevosyan, \u00a0derives from corruption not only in the education system, but also in other spheres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a more serious systemic problem. [Minister of Defense] Vigen Sargsyan\u2019s argument that the amendments \u2018will restore social justice\u2019 is rather controversial. The adoption of this bill will not restore social justice, since a person who resorted to corruption in the education system in order to avoid military service will now resort to corruption in the healthcare sphere for the same purpose,\u201d Matevosyan insisted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H1cnWZ9SLnA?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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 students are convinced that the amendments will no doubt deal a serious blow to education and science, while the Ministry of Defense \u201cis trying to solve its own problems&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,66049],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282571"}],"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=282571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}