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Harutyun Harutyunyan and Hayk Parikyan, who started hunger strike on Baghramyan Avenue two days ago, have been taken to hospital by ambulance car. Their health condition has deteriorated.

In support of the citizens holding sit-in strike against electricity price increase on Baghramyan Avenue, Out of Our Pocket civil initiative, which has joined No to Plunder initiative, on July 5 at 13:00 holds an automobile march.

Short time ago police water cannons and two armored vehicles left Baghramyan Avenue.

Talking to A1+, they boys denied allegations about their party affiliation. As soon as the boy announced the strike, rumours spread that Harutyun (left on the picture) is a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).

Protesters on the avenue gave a warm round of applause to the children.

About 40707 citizens applied to medical institutions subordinated to the Yerevan Municipality from June 19 to 25.

As images of these confrontations were disseminated through social media and various websites, several thousand more protesters showed up the next day, making crowd control practically impossible. At the time of writing this column — the evening of June 29 — demonstrators were still occupying portions of Baghramyan Avenue.

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Like neighboring communities, people here live on the money received from the sale of farm products and sent by their husbands, sons and relatives who work overseas.

Yerevan Deputy Police Chief Valeri Osipyan short time ago approached the young men, Harutyun Harutyunyan and Hayk Parikyan, who had announced hunger strike on Baghramyan Avenue.

About an hour ago two young men from the protesters on Baghramyan Avenue announced hunger strike.

The situation is absolutely quiet on the site of the sit-in strike, here are about thirty citizens, but the police cars remain on the avenue, there are no policemen.

Residents of Alaverdi are joining No to Plunder protest. They are also analyzing issues relating to the audit.

Sofya Hovsepyan again touched upon the term “split”, by assessing it as a rough expression, “It is not a split, the change of actions won’t result in split, it will result in the further development of steps.”

Opposing the authorities is very bad and concessions must be made, “Protesters must understand that it is impossible to fulfill their demands by 100%,” today sociologist Aharon Adibekyna told the journalists.

The condition of private universities is very bad this year. “There are 35 private universities, but only 8-9 universities have entrants,” Director of Assessment and Testing Center Gagik Melikyan told the journalists.

Short time ago extraordinary and tragic incident occurred in Yerevan. As photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan informs, the husband visited number 407 maternity ward of Hanrapetakan hospital, shot his wife with a pistol and then committed suicide.

No to Plunder initiative tried to transfer the fight against electricity price hike from Baghramyan Avenue to Liberty Square.

The international press and social media attention on Baghramyan Avenue was great and continues to remain so.

The European Court of Human Rights on June 16 has made decision , regarding the case of Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan and the case of Chiragov and Others v. Armenia.

According to press reports, individual participants of the protest against the rising electricity prices and their family members are being taken to police stations and there is no information available about the whereabouts and fate.

A pavilion has opened on Baghramyan Avenue where citizens are given free food and water. The move is organized by concerned citizens who decided to hand out free food to citizens protesting the rising electricity prices in Armenia for the 7th day.

#ElectricYerevan: Another day in photos