The riot of the watts

In Yerevan, the demonstrators again tried to go to the Presidential Palace. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". About 5 thousand people participate in the action. Their demand is the liberation of all protesters detained by the police. Previously, the demonstrators nominated the ultimatum to law enforcement officers, demanding that their comrades be released no later than 20:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time). The ultimatum, however, was ignored.

The demonstrators, gathered in Freedom Square, reached the place of morning clash on the central highway of the city - Bagramyan Avenue - however, they were met by the police lined up in several rows. The protesters did not go to the breakthrough, but remained in place, chanting the slogans.

Later, News-Armenia wrote that activists are negotiating with the deputy chief of the metropolitan police Valery Osipyan. Some of the protesters resumed a sedentary demonstration, located on the blocked prospectus.

In the future, Interfax said that the manifestants built barricades from garbage tanks. “We are creating our own security line,” one of the protesters explained.

Meanwhile, the deputy chief of the police of Armenia Ulnan Poghosyan said that the President of the country Serge Sargsyan expressed his readiness to meet with the delegation of the demonstrators. The topic of the meeting should be the freezing of the decision to increase electricity tariffs, which served as a direct reason for protests. Manifestants demand that the meeting be broadcast live.

According to Radio Azatutyun, in Gyumri - the second largest population of the city of the country - all 13 activists detained in the morning for participating in a sedentary demonstration are released. In this city, as well as in Yerevan, a case of hooliganism has been instituted in the fact of protests. One of the detained demonstrators, Karen Petrosyan, is involved as a suspect in the case. A subscription about the wonness is taken from him.

Since June 19, a sedentary demonstration was held in Yerevan on Freedom Square against increasing electricity tariffs - since August, they have been growing by almost 17 percent. On Monday, protesters moved to the Presidential Palace . The police did not miss them, and then the demonstrators blocked Bagramyan Avenue.

The police demanded that the audience disperse. When they refused, vodtetes were applied. The security forces, including those dressed in civilian, attacked the manifestants, as well as journalists. At the same time, reporters were broken by equipment. In total, about a dozen journalists were subjected to attack.

237 demonstrators were detained. According to the Ministry of Health of Armenia, 25 people asked medical help . As of 15:00 Tuesday, at least 5 of them were in a hospital. Earlier it was reported that 11 police officers were injured, who dispersed the protesters.

Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that a criminal case had been instituted under part 1 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Armenia (hooliganism), which provides for up to 2 years of the colony. According to the department, the protesters "violated the peace and constitutional right of numerous citizens to free movement, thereby deliberately violating public order." In the UK Armenia, an investigative group of 20 employees was created . As of the middle of the day on June 23, more than 40 people were already interrogated.

In 2013, Armenia after negotiations by Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin refused to sign the Association Agreement and the Free Trade Zone with the EU. The country's authorities have accepted the course to join the Eurasian Economic Union. In December 2013, on the eve of Putin’s visit to Yerevan, the police tore off the procession of opponents of the pro -Russian course of Armenia . 11 people were detained.

In October 2014, the Armenian government approved a draft agreement on the accession of the republic to the EU ECECES . Official connection took place on January 2, 2015.