Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has organized bicycle campaigns and preaching bicycle transport among citizens. In particular, members of the government started bicycle and organized bicycle walks, and the head of the Prime Minister's staff Arayik Harutyunyan was on the subway. Pashinyan was bicycle not only in Armenia, but also outside Armenia, Moscow, Germany and elsewhere.
From this image, we can assume that a positive change is made, which is a stimulus for a healthy lifestyle and available for the normalization of life.
However, there is still no obvious result for the expense of tens of millions provided from the state budget for these measures.
In particular, 15 million drams were provided to 15 million drams for organizing a bicycle, as well as an additional 3 million 160,000 drams to the Public Relations and Information Center of the Prime Minister's Office to provide public awareness of the Tour de Sevan 2024 bicycle. At the same time, a procurement competition was not announced for the organization of the event, and the purchase was made from one person, in an urgent order, when the bicycle was long planned event.
Back in October 2018, when the bicycle and bicycle specialist Emil Asatryan presented the bicycle with his own hands, he wrote: "It's just that I don't consider it my personal owner, but the first official bicycle of the RA Prime Minister. I hope it is armored. "
Since 2020, the motorcade of Nikol Pashinyan has increased, and before the start of the Prime Minister, the police paralyze the march in which the column must pass. The staff of the RA Prime Minister considers the information about the number of cars accompanying the prime minister, avoiding the expenditure of the Cortege's service budget.
It should be reminded that initially the government promised that the number of official cars would decrease.
In 2024, the IAEA bought 6,500 bicycles for public schools from 6 different companies, each with 113,000 drams. However, the streets of Yerevan and other cities of Armenia are missing the relevant bicycles, which will ensure the safe movement of students.
The Prime Minister last spoke publicly on November 14, 2024 and noted. "I am 50 km bicycle on Sunday, 50 km bicycle, I see young people standing for transport. These children do not prompt the ki, we don't say what you stand at the bus stop, and go on a bicycle. "
In other words, the government's PR strategy has not yet registered a result. Students continue to attend classes with their own or vehicles, no significant relief of traffic overload.
