A court in Yerevan sentenced an Armenian citizen to life imprisonment after it found him guilty of killing two Russian soldiers in 2010, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday.
On October 23, 2010 two bodies with numerous knife stabs were discovered on the territory of a Russian military unit. They were later identified as soldiers, Armen Zakharyan and Artur Yenokyan.
“The suspect in the trial, Mikhail Bashchkov from Yerevan, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison,” the Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.
The investigation revealed that in 2010 Bashchkov borrowed some $600 from late Zakharyan, with whom they were friends. Bashchkov later returned part of the sum, but still owed some $370. They both had a quarrel over the money.
Bashchkov figured out when Zakharyan will be on duty at the military unit next time and decided to kill him. On October 23, he sneaked on the territory of the unit and stabbed Zakharyan. He also stabbed to death another soldier, Yenokyan, who came to help Zakharyan.
