Army units deployed in Yerevan to quell riots

Some of the units of Armenian Armed Forces  have been deployed in Yerevan from places of permanent deployment near the border with Azerbaijan. According to Armenian media, these units  are placed at the bases in the capital and expect the order to begin breaking up the meeting in Yerevan or to counteract the expansion of the zone of unrest.

 The action of protect which began recentl y is while continuing with  participation of several thousand people. More and more people push political rather than social and economic slogans.

So,  they demand not only to decrease  the tariff for electricity, but also resignation of President Serzh Sargsyan. Some of the protesters  have slogans  with  bad words in the  Azerbaijani language, addressed to the president of the country.

On the afternoon of June 24 thousand people blocked Baghramyan Avenue and plan to hold  rallies in the evening on the area of "Freedom." Some protesters prepare an auto-rally. Attempts by the authorities to convince the protesters to disperse or move to another location  do not give results.

Actions in  Yerevan is seriously concern the Kremlin, which  is closely following the events. This is facilitated by the anti-Russian slogans and European orientation of the protesters. This  gave a ground to the pro-Kremlin experts blame the US Embassy  for the organization of the new Maidan in Yerevan.-02D-