{"id":68996,"date":"2011-02-22T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=68996"},"modified":"2011-02-22T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T06:20:51","slug":"prices-in-armenia-slowly-and-steadily-increasing-haykakan-jamanak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/22\/prices-in-armenia-slowly-and-steadily-increasing-haykakan-jamanak.html","title":{"rendered":"Prices in Armenia Slowly and Steadily Increasing: Haykakan Jamanak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of consumer goods and medication in Armenia continues to rise. In the last week, the cost of different types of goods have, as a rule, increased by 5\u201310%, reports local daily Haykakan Jamanak (&#8220;Armenian Times&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say, the price of 1 kg of coffee increased by 5% (before, the coffee that was selling for 2,000 drams per 1 kg, about $5.48 US, is now 2,100 drams, about $5.75 US); oil has increased by 20\u201330 drams, as compared to last week.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of pharmaceutical drugs have increased by 5\u20136% percent in the last week, reports the daily. Reports yesterday\u00a0 said that the price of sugar might increase \u2014 to 800 drams per kilo (about $2.19 US. One kg of sugar currently costs 350 drams, or about $0.96 US). Analysts consider such a change to be unlikely. Why? Because it&#8217;s more realistic that rumors of astronomical increases have a propaganda aim. After being threatened by 800 drams, consumers buying sugar at, let&#8217;s say, 450 or 500 drams per kilo not only will consider it normal, but also will be somewhat pleased.<\/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>Prices of consumer goods and medication in Armenia continues to rise. In the last week, the cost of different types of goods have&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- 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":[10],"tags":[22303,17866,18749,22301,22300,10299,14463,22302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68996"}],"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=68996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}