OREANDA-NEWS   Residents of the villages of Proshyan and Kasakh in Armenia began protests due to the increase in prices for public transport. This is reported by an online resource news.am .

Residents of two villages near Yerevan have blocked one of Armenia's key highways, including the one leading to the border with Georgia. The police arrived at the protest site, which has not yet taken active action to unblock the highway.

It is reported that a similar incident has already occurred before, the last time it happened on April 10.

Earlier, Nikol Pashinyan, who threw an apple at the country's prime minister, was acquitted in Armenia. The violator was held under the article "hooliganism".