February, 2020

• 15 February

  

  Company Affiliated with Ex Yerevan Mayors Exploits Drivers of Public Transportation 

  Drivers of around 150 minivans, operating routes N 1, 10, 12, 13, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29, 34, went on a strike on February 10 2020, demanding reduction of the daily "fee" they have to pay to route owners․․․
• 15 February

  

  Another Soldier Dies in “Unclarified Circumstances” in NK

  This is the 11th case of death in the army since the beginning of the year. None of them is a combat-related casualty. Investigative bodies characterized 4 of them as suicides. 
• 14 February

  Two More Years Before Anti-Smoking Bill Takes Effect in Restaurants

  - Ten percent of annual deaths [in Armenia] result from smoking,” said Nanushian. “This 10 percent is a serious figure, my dear deputies: every year 3,000 people die as a result of smoking.
• 13 February

  Two Conscripts Die in NK 

  The press service of the Defense Ministry of Armenia reports that on February 12, 2020, at around 11:30, army conscripts Tigran Manvelyan and Tigran Mkhoyan both born in 2000, died of a weapon injury inflicted...
• 10 February

  

  Political Responsibility for Changing the Constitution Handed Over to the People 

  The amendments of the constitution will be voted on in a referendum in mid-April the latest and end of March, the earliest. They will pass if the simple majority of voters, not less than one-fourth of the registered voters...
• 10 February

  

  3 Servicemen Perish, 1 Survives in Avalanche 

  Bodies of three of them, Karapet Nazaryan (born in 1991), Tigran Arzumanyan (born 1994) and Never Shahbazyan (born 1995) were found dead. Contract serviceman Hamlet Mirzoyan (born in 1998) was saved...
• 5 February

  

  Azerbaijan to Pay 62.000 EUR to the Family of Armenian Citizen Taken Hostage and Killed in Azerbaijan 

  The forensic examination of the body transferred to Armenia indicated many signs of violence around his neck, head and other parts of the body...