Yerevan police intends to supplant demonstrators from Bagramyan Avenue

The deputy chief of the police, Yerevan, Valery Osipyan made it clear that after 23:00 Sunday by local time (22:00 Moscow time), law enforcement officers intend to oust protesters from the central highway of the city - Bagramyan Avenue. It is reported by Radio Azatutyun.

“Within the framework of the law, the police uses funds for Bagramyan Avenue to be restored by public order,” Osipyan said, having examined the barricades built by demonstrators. “Violators of the law will be punished.”

As the Caucasian Knot clarifies , the police official said that the demonstrators have "achieved victory" and now he expects that the leaders of the protesters "will stop the action or transfer it to the Square of Liberty." Osipyan emphasized that if the organizers want to rally on Freedom Square, he will personally "petition for permission."

According to the publication, at 13:00 Sunday, about 600 people were on Bagramyan Avenue.

Meanwhile, Radio Liberty reports that activists of the Opposition structure "Constituent Parliament", founded in November 2012, joined the protests on Bagramyan Avenue, and this year significantly activated their activities. The representative of the organization Girair Sephilyan noted that since the authorities did not fulfill the demand of the people, "it is necessary to continue round -the -clock actions."

The day before, Armenian President Serge Sargsyan promised that the government would take on all expenses associated with raising electricity tariffs until he gets the results of the audit of the company "Electric Networks of Armenia". The head of state explained that this will go on funds that initially allocated for safety.

However, members of the coordination group "No robbery", which leads the protests, said that the action would continue until the final abolition of the government decisions on raising tariffs.

Meanwhile, the head of the Armenian police, Vladimir Gasparyan on Saturday ordered to withdraw police equipment from France Square, adjacent to Bagramyan Avenue.

A sedentary demonstration against the 17 percent increase in electricity tariffs planned since August began in Yerevan on June 19. On June 22, protesters moved to the Presidential Palace . The police did not miss them, and then the demonstrators blocked Bagramyan Avenue. The police brutally dispersed the protesters. 237 people were detained.

Nevertheless, the protest only intensified. In the evening of Tuesday , the demonstrators again tried to go to the Presidential Palace. This time the police also blocked their way, but there was no dispersal. The protests continued in the second largest city in Armenia - Gyumri - and also began in other cities .

On Friday, Sargsyan, following a meeting with the Minister of Transport of Russia, the co-chair of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission, Maxim Sokolov, said that an audit would be held in the "electric networks of Armenia". He also said that the case of the murder by the Russian soldier-world Valery Permykov seven people in Gyumri was transferred to the Armenian side . Earlier, Russia refused to issue the accused, referring to its constitution.