On June 19, 2015, protests broke out in the Armenian capital of Yerevan as demonstrators expressed opposition to President Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to raise electricity prices by 17% to 22%. Over the course of the next week, this initial episode of unrest blossomed into what many have described as a Maidan-style revolution, featuring marches on the presidential palace, all night sit-ins around the capital and police crackdowns. Many Western and Russian observers alike have argued that these protests will lead to a colored revolution-style demise of the Armenian regime (albeit outside the conventional electoral protest path), and cause Armenia to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
