{"id":251414,"date":"2024-03-28T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/03\/28\/251414\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T17:08:23","slug":"ban-on-mir-cards-in-armenia-is-a-balanced-and-cautious-position-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/03\/28\/251414\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Mir cards in Armenia is a balanced and cautious position &#8211; MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 28. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The decision to ban the processing of Russian &#8220;Mir&#8221; cards in Armenia is a balanced and cautious position, said Babken Tunyan, head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Issues, MP from the ruling Civil Contract party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier it was reported that cards of the Russian payment system &#8220;Mir&#8221; will not be processed by ATMs and POS-terminals of Armenian banks from March 30, 2024, except for VTB Armenia Bank, a division of Russia&#8217;s VTB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of Armenia said in a commentary for the ARKA news agency that &#8220;commercial banks in Armenia independently decide which payment systems to cooperate with based on their risk management strategies, including those related to sanctions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunyan believes that Armenia should not circumvent the sanctions imposed against Russia by a number of Western countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We should understand and realize the risks that may arise in case of circumventing anti-Russian sanctions,&#8221; he said at a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Armenia&#8217;s banking system tries to circumvent sanctions in some cases, it will find itself isolated from the world, he said. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to ban the processing of Russian &#8220;Mir&#8221; cards in Armenia is a balanced and cautious position, said Babken Tunyan, head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Issues, MP from the ruling Civil Contract party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}