YEREVAN. – The demonstrators who are staging a protest Friday in front of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) building, and who are against the controversial agreement that was signed on December 2 between the Armenian and the Russian governments, announced, at around 2pm, that they will resume their demonstration at 8pm.     

To note, the NA special session, which also will discuss the aforementioned agreement, will come to an end at 8pm.

Some activists, who were forced into police cars during the protest, were set free from the very vehicles.   

The only thing known at this point is that two activists are detained at a capital city Yerevan police station. They are Anton Ivchenko, whose nose, according to the activists, is broken; and Vardges Gaspari.     

But the activists are still gathered across the NA building. Despite the blistering cold, they are not leaving and, what is more, their numbers are growing.  

The civic activists, who gathered in front of the NA building, had stated that those MPs who will vote in favor of the above-said agreement—pursuant to which the remaining 20 percent of the ArmRusGazprom Company shares, which the Government of Armenia owns, will be sold to the Russian energy giant Gazprom Company—will be considered as traitors to the Armenian nation.