Armenia lifts most lockdown measures

New Europe
May 8 2020

<img src=”"https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/prm1-e1553626075551-50×50.jpg" alt="Elena Pavlovska" class=""post-thumb-wrap" style = "background-size: cover;background-position: 10%;width:50px;height:50px;background-image:url('');margin:5px 0;border-radius: 90px;border: 1px solid rgb(88, 90, 12);border-radius: 50px/50px; /* horizontal radius / vertical radius */""> By Elena Pavlovska

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<img width="1068" height="664" class="entry-thumb" src=”"https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/06_Yerevan-1.jpg" srcset="https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/06_Yerevan-1.jpg 1068w, https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/06_Yerevan-1.jpg 2136w" sizes="(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 2136px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 2136px, 1068px" alt="" title="A special operation to release police officers taken hostage at the seized police station in Yerevan"/>epa05429603 Armenian police officers with armored vehicles block the street during a special operation to release police officers taken hostage at the seized police station in the district of Erebuni in Yerevan, Armenia, 17 July 2016. A group of armed men which seized a police station to demand the release of opposition politician, a member of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the leader of a new Armenian Public Salvation Front Zhirayr Sefilyan, who was arrested for the obtaining and storage of firearms. EPA/HAYK BAGHDASARYAN/PHOTOLURE