YEREVAN. – The residents of Yeghegnut village of Armavir Province are demonstrating outside the main building of the government of Armenia, demanding not to reinstate their former village mayor.

Ashot Khurshudyan, the deputy mayor of Yeghegnut, noted that the former village prefect had written off 1 million drams from the village budget, which was the amount for the restoration of the tombstones of the fallen freedom fighters, but, according to Khurshudyan, the former village head did not spend one dram to that end.

"That seal was put with the permission of the provincial governor. Had the provincial governor not allowed it, he [the ex-mayor of the village] could not have taken [that money] out [of the village budget]. (…). We last met with the provincial governor on June 22, and we do not even want to meet [with him] after that," said one of the protesters.