{"id":285263,"date":"2018-04-29T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=285263"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:52:59","slug":"oligarchys-end-has-come-demonstration-in-yerevan-outside-republican-oligarchs-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/04\/29\/oligarchys-end-has-come-demonstration-in-yerevan-outside-republican-oligarchs-businesses.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oligarchy\u2019s End Has Come;\u201d Demonstration in Yerevan Outside Republican Oligarchs\u2019 Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several dozen demonstrators today blocked the entrance to two major supermarkets &#8211; SAS and Yerevan City &#8211; owned by Republican Party MPs Artak Sargsyan and Samvel Aleksanyan, respectively. The protesters urged visitors to boycott the businesses the Republican oligarchs and not to shop in these supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sasrally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-285229\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sasrally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s resignation, the oligarchic system tries to maintain the power they have seized in Armenia. Our struggle was and remains against this system. The oligarchs, who make profit through and at the expense of the people of Armenia, will from now on have to listen to the voice of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days of bribes and electoral fraud, \u201cdads\u201d and \u201cbacks,\u201d shadow deals and lawlessness have passed. Businesses operating in Armenia must reckon with the demand of the Armenian people and their need for change. The oligarchic system must be abolished, and it has to not intervene in the ongoing struggle or turn a national victory into a subject of political bidding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voice of the people must be heard in the parliament on May 1; Nikol has the support of the people &#8211; he is the interim Prime Minister,\u201d one of the messages read out by the demonstrators said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"\u00ab\u0555\u056c\u056b\u0563\u0561\u0580\u056d\u056b\u0561\u0575\u056b \u057e\u0565\u0580\u057b\u0568 \u0565\u056f\u0565\u056c \u0561\u00bb\u2024 \u0562\u0578\u0575\u056f\u0578\u057f\u0578\u0582\u0574 \u0565\u0576 \u00ab\u054d\u0531\u054d\u00bb\u058a\u0576 \u0578\u0582 \u00ab\u0535\u0580\u0587\u0561\u0576 \u054d\u056b\u0569\u056b\u0576\u00bb\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InpR6Bu2FZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The protesters also recalled how during the 2017 parliamentary elections, employees of Artak Sargsyan\u2019s SAS Group were threatened with dismissal if they failed to bring in votes for Sargsyan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/city.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-285232\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/city.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the slogans chanted by the demonstrators included: \u201cThe RPA\u2019s End Has Come;\u201d \u201cThe Oligarchy\u2019s End Has Come;\u201d \u201cThe Power Is Ours;\u201d \u201cNo to Threats, No to Violence, No to Poverty;\u201d \u201cFree, Independent Armenia;\u201d \u201cNo to Exploitation, Yes to Justice;\u201d \u201cStrike, Boycott, Join!\u201d \u201cWork, Rights, Dignity!\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voice of the people must be heard in the parliament on May 1; Nikol has the support of the people &#8211; he is the interim Prime Minister,\u201d one of the messages read &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66047,66041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}