Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and acting President Alen Simonyan on Tuesday, March 1 paid tribute to the memory of the victims of protests that erupted after the 2008 Armenian presidential election in the country.

Protests first began on February 20, lasted for 10 days in Yerevan's Freedom Square, and continued until March 1, when police and military forces began to disperse the protesters. As a result, 10 people were killed.

Pashinyan and Simonyan laid a wreath at the statue of Soviet Armenian statesman Alexander Miasnikian, the government reveals.