The Embassy of Russian Federation in Armenia disseminated a statement that their employees have anything to do with the incident at the Embassy on August 17, around 22:00 p.m. with the participation of the activists.
The Embassy was also denied the information that the activists have made an attempt to illegally enter the Embassy premises, or have thrown some items in that direction.
To remind that, on that day, the activists of “We Pay 100 AMD” movement Karen Harutyunyan, Gor Arakelyan and Melik Daveyan were taken to the police station. The police had explained that they had received an alarm that there is a broil at the Embassy between the employees and the citizens. And the police officers getting to the place of incident have found out that on the same day, around 22:10 o’clock, a group of citizens tried to enter protected area of the Embassy located in Gr. Illuminator 13 Street, entering into a dispute with the employees performing protection service, not obeying legal requirements thereof.
In a conversation with Aravot.am, the activist Karen Harutyunyan expressed his surprise at where the police found out that they tried to enter the Embassy premises, they were just at the fence of the Embassy with bicycle, and made NSA employees nervous. “This kind of thing really did not happen. The police, obviously, had presented everything in a senseless form, according to them they were arrested by the Article on hooliganism, although our status is not clear up to now, we have no status. The case is with the investigator. The police, so to say, came and kidnapped us, because he had to submit the legal basis. They said that it was an act of hooliganism, that as if we breached the order in a crude form, which was expressed by disrespected attitude towards the Embassy staff. Such a thing is absurd. They do something, then try to somehow justify.”
Hripsimeh JEBEJYAN
