  Street traders, MPs, policemen clash in Yerevan March 3, 2011 - 13:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Street traders, Armenian parliament members and policemen clashed in Yerevan. Street traders, who were protesting against the decision of Yerevan Mayor’s Office to ban street trade for several weeks, planned to hold a protest action at 11:00am in front of the Armenian government building. Member of Heritage parliamentary group Zaruhi Postanjyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter from the scene that in the morning the governmental building was encircled by hundreds of policemen, who prevented accumulation of rally participants near the governmental building. According to Postanjyan, this has resulted in a clash between peace activists and policemen, who applied force towards the rally participants. “Members of the Armenian parliament Anahit Bakhshyan and Armen Martirosyan were injured in the clash. They were given medical aid,” said Postanjyan. According to her, police have detained several participants of the protest action. Currently, dozens of policemen continue protecting the governmental building.   Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says.   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |
