YEREVAN. - Armenian authorities support to the migration of Armenians from their own country, said chairman of Armenian National Movement board, member of opposition Armenian National Congress Aram Manukyan.

Opposition member claimed that leaflets inviting for work in Russia are distributed among people even during the rally.

“Three-fourths of Armenia’s farmers have migrated, 160 rural communities have disappeared. It is organized by the authorities,” he said at opposition’s rally held in the downtown Yerevan. “Armenia will become an abandoned state in several years. It is genocide.”

The Armenian National Congress is an oppositional union founded in 2008 and leaded by first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Opposition union comprises 17 political parties.