Yerevan (AFP) – Armenian authorities threatened Sunday to forcefully break up a protest against rising electricity prices and police brutality after the president announced concessions in a bid to calm tensions.Thousands of demonstrators were expected to take to the streets of the capital Yerevan in the evening after President Serzh Sarkisian’s promise that the government would shoulder the burden of a controversial hike in electricity prices failed to appease the activists.Police threatened to break up the rallies which grew out of dissatisfaction with rising electricity prices and have since morphed into a broader protest movement in a country already hit …read more
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