We are going home but we shall return again - say protesters (video)
20.56 Protest outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan ended a few minutes ago. “We are going home but we shall return again unless Russia declares that it stops selling arms to Azerbaijan,” the group said before leaving the site. 20.29 “You are snivel, you are greenhorn yourself,” protesters said outside the Russian Embassy in Terevan addressing their words to Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister. Then the group began throwing eggs and coins at the Embassy building. This was followed by clashes between the protesters and police. The organizers urged the group to continue the action on the opposite pavement in order not to hinder traffic on the street but the protesters refused to do it. “We are staying here,” they said. 20.38 The protesters finally reached the building of the Russian Embassy where they began vociferating, “Karabakh is ours!” Despite the policemen’s efforts to prevent the group from approaching the Embassy, the protesters broke through the police cordon and closed the road. When police urged citizens to keep away from the Embassy gate, Anahit Bakhshyan, a member of the Barev Yerevan faction in Yerevan's Municipal Council, told police officers, “You are defending this building as if it were the border of Karabakh…” 19.45 The protesters stopped in front of the Armenian Foreign Office. “It seems that we can pose serious demands to this structure but we simply ask Edward Nalbandian not to interfere in the country’s foreign affairs,” said David Sanasaryan, one of the participants of the protest. 19.40 The participants of the protest against the Russian Federation stopped near the Armenian Government to express their indignation at Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan’s decision to travel to Moscow to attend a meeting of prime ministers of EEC member countries. “This undermines our values. Hovik Abrahamyan should have gone to Moscow only to inform the Russian side about Armenia’s intention to withdraw from the EEU,” said Daniel Ioanisyan from the Union of Informed Citizens NGO. He added that 'if our prime minister smiles at the prime minister of a country that sells weapons to our enemy, he can stay in that country [Russia] and never return to Armenia. 18.57 Hundreds of Armenians are staging a protest at Liberty Square in Yerevan against Russia’s policy towards Armenia and Azerbaijan. Those who address the protesters from the tribute blame Russia for billions of dollars worth of deadly weapons to Azerbaijan which the latter uses to attack Armenian civilians. The participants will later hold a march to Embassy of the Russian Federation in Yerevan. A1+ is live streaming the event.
