Armenian opposition, requiring the resignation of the Prime Minister of the country Nikola Pashinyan, in the morning of Tuesday May 17 began a shares of civil disobedience, blocking the streets in various parts of Yerevan, media reports.
Early in the morning, the police detained dozens of protesters who overlapped Yerevan streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan. Protest promotions broadcast local portals in real time, RIA Novosti reports. Traffic jams formed in Yerevan. Demonstrators are trying to paralyze the movement by blocking the streets and key transport nodes. In some places “barricades” from garbage urns are being built. Some deputies from the Opposition Bloc “Armenia”, headed by Robert Kocharyan, take part in the shares. His son, Levon Kocharian, is among the detainees. Police officers detained the deputy chairman of the Republican Party Armen Ashotyan and ex-deputy Nyru Zrebyan.
Earlier, the vice speaker of the Armenian parliament from the opposition faction “Armenia” Ishkhan Sagatelan said that large-scale shares of disobedience will begin, roads will be closed, transport traffic will be stopped, “the capital will be paralyzed,” and at 19:00 on the area on the square France in Yerevan will be a next rally.