YEREVAN. June 29 (Interfax) - About one thousand persons spent last night on Bagramian Avenue, the location of a protest against rising electricity tariffs.
The situation was generally quiet. Some protesters lay down on the asphalt and the others were walking around. No appeals or speeches were made.
In the meantime, members and coordinators of the public movement No to Robbery who left the avenue after the police had urged the protesters to leave gathered on Freedom Square adjacent to Bagramian Avenue.
Movement members said that the Armenian president's statement regarding ways to resolve the situation was acceptable. They also said that people who stayed on Bagramian Avenue and refused to leave were provoking tensions.
In turn, the protesters who stayed on Bagramian Avenue accused the public movement No to Robbery of betrayal, said they intended "to carry on their struggle" against rising electricity tariffs and refused to unblock the avenue.
The police did nothing but repeatedly expressed the readiness to stop the protest by using force within the limits set by law.
Round-the-clock protests in Yerevan against rising electricity tariffs initiated by the public movement No to Robbery have been on for nine days. They started on Freedom Square on June 19, and the protesters blocked the central Bagramian Avenue which is adjacent to the square and where the residence of the Armenian president is situated on June 22.