YEREVAN. – Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s last dinner party cost very dear to the pockets of the country’s taxpayers, Zhoghovurd daily reports.

“[A total of] 1.3 million drams [approx. $ 3,165] were spent from the state budget on the dinner that was organized on April 15, [and] along the lines of the meeting with the delegations of the member countries of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission. This lavish hospitality was organized on behalf of the PM. Forty people attended the official dinner ([and] about 35,000 drams [approx. $85] were paid for each person).

And on March 20, the dinner for the official guests that had arrived in the Government of Armenia, [and] which was attended by nine people, cost around 235,000 drams [approx. $572] on us, the Armenian citizens. 

To note, the dinner parties of the other [state] administrations cost much less,” Zhoghovurd writes.