{"id":282736,"date":"2017-11-15T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282736"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:05:41","slug":"government-armenias-largest-grant-eater-opposition-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/11\/15\/government-armenias-largest-grant-eater-opposition-mp-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Armenia\u2019s Largest \u2018Grant Eater,\u2019 Opposition MP Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008-2014, the Armenian Government received grant support worth about half a billion dollars from Japan, European structures and the USA, Artak Zeynalyan, a deputy from the opposition Yelk faction, wrote Wednesday on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The grants and property received from Japan, the US and European structures:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nuclear power plant &#8211; $120 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Office of the Ombudsman &#8211; $2 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Justice\u055d nearly &#8211; $25 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 National Statistical Service &#8211; $2 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Emergency Situations &#8211; $10 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Nature &#8211; $40 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Health &#8211; $4,2 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Culture &#8211; $2 million;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Agriculture &#8211; nearly \u00a0$8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Police received property worth more than $5.5 million from the US alone, and $36 million from the United States was received by the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This list does not include the grants allocated by the OSCE, the Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, and a number of Indian, Ukrainian, Russian structures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even the National Assembly received $1,5 million grant from North Korea. Grant support received by the Armenian government from 2008 to 2014 amounts to about half a billion dollars, 80% of which comes from the EU and the US,\u201d Zeynalyan wrote.<\/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>This list does not include the grants allocated by the OSCE, the Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, and a number of Indian, Ukrainian, Russian 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,66047,66058],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282736"}],"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=282736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}