Thousands of people continued to hold a nonstop demonstration in Yerevan on Sunday night, rejecting its organizers' calls to unblock a key street in the city center voiced after concessions made to the protesters by President Serzh Sarkisian.
The No To Plunder youth movement leading the campaign against a controversial rise in electricity prices decided to move its weeklong street protests back to Liberty Square and thus reopen Marshal Bagramian Avenue to traffic.
One of its leaders, Vaghinak Shushanian, announced the decision on Sunday evening in a speech delivered from a barricade erected at the blocked street section. He cited the risk of renewed violent clashes with riot police deployed nearby as well as President Serzh Sarkisian's announcement on Friday that the Armenian government will at least temporarily subsidize the energy tariffs.
Armenian News
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