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Protesters block streets in Armenian capital to call for PM's resignation

Police officers restrain participants of an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 3, 2022. Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS

Protesters calling for the resignation of Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan blocked major roads in the capital Yerevan on Wednesday and called for citizens to commit acts of civil disobedience.

Footage from local television showed protesters blocking Yerevan's Kievian Bridge over the Hrazdan River, chanting "Armenia without Nikol!"

Traffic on the bridge has since resumed, according to a Reuters witness.

Police officers detain a man during an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 4, 2022. Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS

Pashinyan has faced heavy criticism since he agreed in November 2020 to a Russian-brokered ceasefire to end six weeks of war between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The deal that ended the heaviest fighting in the region since the 1990s secured significant territorial gains for Azerbaijan in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.

Pashinyan said he had been compelled to accept the deal, which prompted a wave of protests, to avoid greater human and territorial losses.

Police officers detain a man during an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 4, 2022. Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS

(Reporting by Reuters)

Police officers detain a man during an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 4, 2022. Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 3, 2022. Stepan Poghosyan/Photolure via REUTERS
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