{"id":63389,"date":"2011-02-07T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T09:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=63389"},"modified":"2011-02-07T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T09:57:47","slug":"protesting-armenian-drivers-block-gyumri-yerevan-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/07\/protesting-armenian-drivers-block-gyumri-yerevan-route.html","title":{"rendered":"Protesting Armenian Drivers Block Gyumri-Yerevan Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers working in Gyumri, Armenia&#8217;s second-largest city, are continuing their protest, which began Saturday, outside the Shirak regional governor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, on Feb. 5, a few dozen drivers were protesting the high customs duties for vehicles coming to Armenia from Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>As told to Epress.am by protestor Vahan Khachatryan, drivers initially simply gathered and waited for a response, but have since decided to block the two roads leading to the regional governor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Observing the situation, Shirak governor (marzpet) Ashot Giziryan&#8217;s deputy Seyran Petrosyan approached the protestors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deputy marzpet says nothing serious and attempts to convince people to open the road, but the drivers say since they haven&#8217;t yet given us a positive response, we&#8217;re not going to leave from here,&#8221; said Khachatryan.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the drivers are insulted that instead of the marzpet approaching them, he&#8217;s asked five representatives to come to his office to talk. The drivers haven&#8217;t gone to his office and have decided to go to the village of Azatan and block the Gyumri-Yerevan route. In Azatan, they decided to wait two hours and if the issue isn&#8217;t resolved, the drivers will go toward the town of Bavra, to block the road from Armenia to Georgia.<\/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>Drivers working in Gyumri, Armenia&#8217;s second-largest city, are continuing their protest, which began Saturday, outside the&#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":63357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21343,20712,21342,12128,14237,21341,15845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63389"}],"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=63389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}