{"id":83341,"date":"2011-04-08T11:49:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=83341"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T06:51:32","slug":"he-can-give-a-gift-to-whoever-he-wants-ruben-hayrapetyan-defends-tashir-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/08\/he-can-give-a-gift-to-whoever-he-wants-ruben-hayrapetyan-defends-tashir-president.html","title":{"rendered":"He Can Give a Gift to Whoever He Wants: Ruben Hayrapetyan Defends Tashir President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Apr. 3 Tashir 2011 Music Awards in Moscow, what began as a Facebook campaign has spread into the public sphere with a number of individuals and local NGOs calling on those singers and musicians who were awarded apartments in the lavish awards show to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/04\/armenian-stars-asked-to-donate-their-apartments-to-the-homeless\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">donate them to homeless families<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Armenia. Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP and president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan spoke to local daily Aravot,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been 10 years that [president of Tashir Group, Russian-Armenian tycoon] Samvel Karapetyan has carried out tens of millions of dollars&#8217; worth of charity in Armenia and Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh]. At no time did we see those same news outlets or websites say thanks to this patriotic benefactor. You can&#8217;t spatter and discredit him like that today. [And] in the case when he gave gifts from his personal possessions. Maybe he made a mistake, but he gave gifts to whoever he wanted. And who&#8217;s to say that he shouldn&#8217;t have given a gift to [popular Armenian singer] Shushan Petrosyan? Do we have a better singer in her style [of music] than her? Or is there a better singer than Sirusho in her style? Definitely not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In any case, it was Samvel Karapetyan&#8217;s private business and his [personal] right to decide who he&#8217;s going to give a gift to. And one can&#8217;t criticize philanthropy by a benefactor. They do it so that everyone turns away from our country. This hostility should be removed from within the people. They also assess negatively that which is good \u2014 charity,&#8221; he said, reports Aravot.<\/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>Following the Apr. 3 Tashir 2011 Music Awards in Moscow, what began as a Facebook campaign has spread into the public sphere with&#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":[10],"tags":[15030,15016,24274,24474,24475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341"}],"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=83341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}