Armenian Authorities Restricting Public Transport Routes from Regions to Capital Today: HAK

The Armenian National Congress (HAK) press service is sounding the alarm on the news that public transportation from Armenia’s marzes (provinces) to the capital is not running properly today when HAK is holding its second rally this year.

HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrossian’s press secretary Arman Musinyan told Tert.am that, typical of ruling authorities, they’ve instructed transport route owners (each public transport route in Armenia, for example, the Etchmiadzin-Yerevan route, is owned by an individual) not to allow their drivers to work today. Furthermore, taxi drivers have been instructed to take no more than one passenger at a time to Yerevan.

“A few public transport routes, which don’t stop on main roads, haven’t been operational today. We have received such reports from Etchmiadzin, Armavir, Artashat and Sevan,” said Musinyan.

HAK is planning to hold its second rally this year at 6 pm near the Matenadaran (the Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts). As previously reported, this time, ironically enough, HAK will draw attention to the ways at which the country’s ruling authorities have attempted to hinder HAK rallies by blocking regional roads leading to Yerevan.