The number of protesters in the center of Yerevan increased to 5 thousand

With the end of the day the number of protesters against the increase in electricity tariffs on the Marshal Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan has more than doubled and amounted to about 5 thousand People, said the police source.
"at this point in the demonstration of disagreement on the prospect of Marshal Baghramyan involved 5 thousand people ", - said the source news Agency, noting, because it is the highest number of participants in demonstrations all the time.
Protesters continue to maintain street cleanliness and order: the gathering boxes from pizza, ice cream, other foods, as well as plastic bottles of water. Citizens are handwritten posters With the requirement to cancel the increase in electricity tariffs. For example, the protesters oppose the Prime Minister of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan on Thursday at a meeting of the government said, no alternative to the increased cost of electricity, and refuse to follow his call to unlock one of the main streets of the capital. The police presence at the place of meeting is Not visually perceived, however, in adjacent lanes are buses with employees of police troops (internal troops), and the Marshal Baghramyan Avenue above the scene of the action is a special vehicle With a water cannon and other office machines. Among the crowd was the truck that is used in carrying out sanitary cleaning of the centre and a number of other districts of Yerevan. It climbed up the young participants of the rally, but police asked them to get off the machine. Remember, demonstrations of disagreement in Armenia continued from Tuesday and organized by the civil movement " No robbery ", which consists mostly of commissioners of young people Not associated With the political forces. Activists demand to cancel the government's decision to increase tariff on light 16, 7%. On Tuesday the Armenian law enforcement bodies dispersed the crowd, and cannons. Law enforcement agencies in the process of forcible disbandment arrested 237 people. However, all of them by Tuesday night have been released. Relative arrested protesters prosecuted under the criminal code in accordance with paragraph " Hooliganism ". On Wednesday at a rally against increase of tariffs for the electric power went out about 4 thousand People, most of them young people, chanting " we will fight to the end!", "Don't give in!". We emphasize that although the official cause of the protests is rising electricity prices occurring touched and Russia. For example, in the Ukrainian media, the demonstrations of disagreement was filed as "Armenian forces" and the uprising against Russian occupation ". Correspondents have peddled the theory that part of protesters waving EU flags and chanted slogans in person against President Vladimir Putin. Moscow while carefully watching the developments." We hope that in the near future the situation will be resolved in strict accordance With the legislative act, " said President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.


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