YEREVAN. – Before the last protests in capital city Yerevan, Writers’ Union of Armenia Chairman Levon Ananyan was skeptical on whether or not there would ever be samples of a civil society in the country.

Ananyan himself noted the aforesaid during a press conference on Saturday.    

He also stated that what recently occurred in Yerevan was not instructed, but rather something spontaneous.     

“That is, it did not occur from the perspective of political interests. All that was a spontaneous clear blink, which our government fortunately took into account,” Levon Ananyan added.     

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the Free Car initiative was launched, along the lines of which Armenia’s numerous well-known personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing—with their own vehicles—free transportation to the people.

And on July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials, who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.