The police surrounded the building of the National Assembly of Armenia, near which the protesters set up a tent city. Telegram channel “Sputnik Armenia” informs about it.
Journalists counted eight buses with law enforcement officers and two cars with barbed wire near Demirchyan Street.
The situation in the center of Yerevan, where opposition supporters continue to gather, is now calm.
At the same time, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan published a list of army ranks and how the salaries of military personnel rose during his rule. In addition, he pointed out that over the past two years, “an unprecedented amount of weapons and ammunition” had been purchased.
On February 25, mass protests began in Yerevan after the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces issued a statement demanding the immediate resignation of Pashinyan. The military was supported by former presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan, as well as by the police. Pashinyan announced an attempted coup d'état, and the special services took his side.
Protests demanding Pashinyan to leave his post have continued in Armenia since the end of the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The opposition accuses the prime minister of betraying the country's national interests. Opponents of the current government created the political movement “For the Salvation of the Motherland”, which included representatives of 17 parties and organizations. Pashinyan himself said that he was clean before the people.
