Armenian security forces refrained from another violent crackdown on demonstrators protesting against a hike in electricity prices as the latter blocked a central avenue in Yerevan for the third day running on Wednesday.
Hundreds of mostly young activists spent a second night on Marshal Bagramian Avenue in a continuing standoff with riot police deployed nearby to prevent them from marching to the presidential palace in the Armenian capital. Most of them stayed behind a row of large trash containers they placed across the road as a barricade.
A group of Armenian opposition parliamentarians and well-known public figures stood between the protesters and rows of police officers through the night in an effort to prevent another forcible dispersal of the crowd.
Armenian News
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