2024-04-02 10:48:59
The author-host of the “Social Justice” podcast, Shake Isayan, informed on his Facebook page that this time the podcast will be dedicated to the situation created around MIR cards.
He specifically wrote: “Dear friends, at your suggestion, this time the podcast will be dedicated to the situation around MIR cards, it will be available on Monday, and until then let’s understand what is happening.
Starting tomorrow, all commercial banks of our republic, except for VTB Bank, stop servicing MIR cards. What kind of consequences this can cause for the domestic economy, one or two specialists are only warning for now…
Armenian banks do not want to be targeted by Western sanctions. very good, it’s a natural desire, but what will happen next?
Only in 2023, 3.9 billion dollars were transferred from the Russian Federation to Armenia, of which 3.1 billion dollars were transferred for commercial purposes, certainly most of them were transferred with MIR cards.
In other words, the purchases made with these cards from the com of Russian relocants have revitalized our economy. This revitalization, in turn, is reflected, for example, in the much-vaunted economic growth of the last 2 years.
Don’t we want sanctions? Of course, we don’t, but on the other side is the enormous dependence of the Armenian economy on the Russian market. Now, can Armenia afford such luxury to refuse the flow of so many billions?
The next problem. Several hundreds of thousands of pensioners and beneficiaries in Armenia receive their vital monthly pension with MIR cards. What work has been done with these people, apart from the online application announcement? Is this the balanced and cautious approach, when most of the pensioners will find out about the problems that happened to them only days later?
P.S. Or we can say it like electronic prescriptions, we are falling into a routine day by day.
Effective management? No, we haven’t heard…” he wrote.