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YEREVAN. – You know that the Police of Armenia have the power and ability to carry out an event with ten thousands, more. But should it break the person, the young, should I break my kind? 

The Police Chief of Armenia, Vladimir Gasparyan, on Tuesday noted the aforementioned in a warm conversation with young activists at Baghramyan Avenue in capital city Yerevan, and who are protesting against the recent decision to raise the price of electricity in the country.

“If we are unable to forgive ourselves and understand one another, we will achieve nothing. (…) We [i.e. Armenians] are [a] small [nation], [and] every eruption of ours can be ill-fated,” said Gasparyan. “If the first, second, [and] third one was unfair, you need to do everything so that the fourth is fair.”

As per Armenia’s police chief, we shall constantly move forward, and the driving force is the youth.

“Yes, I believe the youth shall be crazy to some extent,” noted Vladimir Gasparyan. “But that craziness shall be within logic and respect.”

On the evening of June 23, numerous people had commenced a sit-in at Baghramyan Avenue in capital city Yerevan, closed it off, and demanded the revoking of the decision to raise the price of electricity in the country. But on Sunday—and following President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement—some of them went to Liberty Square, whereas the majority stayed at Baghramyan Avenue.

Despite numerous protests, the Public Services Regulatory Commission recently increased the price of electricity in Armenia by 6.93 drams—instead of 17 drams, proposed by the Electric Networks of Armenia Company—, per cubic meter, and this decision will take effect on August 1. But the decision is expected to be followed by an increase in the prices of numerous products and services in the country.

President Serzh Sargsyan, however, stated that the government will cover this price hike until an audit is conducted at the ENA, which supplies electricity to the country’s residents. Sargsyan also said he does not rule out returning the company to the Armenian government and transferring it to competitive management, if the audit shows that the aforesaid increase in electricity prices is unjustified.

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