Reports from the scene indicate that police have used force to remove about 20 demonstrators who had blocked the entrance to the VTB Bank on Nalbandyan Street. Some of the activists, protesting the fact that the bank was about to lend millions of dollars to the Armenian Copper Programme in Teghut, were hurled down the stairs by the police.

The protestors, hurt but unbowed, have remained nearby the bank shouting slogans and capturing the attention of curious passersby.