Armenian Police Disperse Protest After 2 Weeks

By AVET DEMOURIAN, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Mon, 07/06/2015 - 6:41am

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Police cleared away barricades on Monday to unblock a central avenue in the Armenian capital that demonstrators had occupied for two weeks to protest hikes in electricity prices in the impoverished former Soviet nation. At the end of last week, protest organizers gave the government a deadline of Monday evening to meet their demands, saying that otherwise they would begin moving the trash containers forward along the avenue in the direction of the presidential residence.

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