The victims of state needs (those evicted from the Northern Avenue, the Aram and Buzand Streets) gathered today at the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. Over 50 people demanded explanation how Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov has obtained several buildings in Pushkin street “without asking their permission”.

“Do the government and President Putin know how much Mayor Luzhkov paid for a square meter?” chairman of the committee for protection of the Northern Avenue Vachagan Hakobyan said. Committee representative Sedrak Baghdasaryan found out that Ches-Tor Moscow organization is going to construct 6 buildings in Pushkin street. He produced documents, which say that Ches-Tor is registered at the address of Rublev road, where the company belonging to Luzhkov’s wife Yelena Baturina is situated.

Moreover, the residents also produced document saying that 81% stocks of GRIAR Armenian organization, registered in the state register November 21, 2003, also belongs to Ches-Tor. Sedrak Baghdasaryan informed that in early 2004 GRIAR’s debt to the government made 3 million 343 thousand AMD. However, despite the debt the government has granted 8 thousand square meters to the organization to the realization of its project.

To note, the embassy guards forbade an operator of Shant TV Company to shoot the embassy building and the demonstrators.