ArmInfo.Yerevan Municipality will allocate 2 million drams for the construction of a memorial to the victims of March 1, 2008. The corresponding decision was made on December 16 at an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Elders of Yerevan.
Thus, the Council of Elders of the Armenian capital introduced changes to the budget of Yerevan for the current year. As a result, targeted allocations will be increased by 3 million 950 thousand drams, 2 million drams of which are planned to be spent on the construction of a memorial commemorating the victims of March 1, 2008.
To recall, on March 1, 2008, in the center of Yerevan, as a result of the confrontation between the government and the opposition, 8 demonstrators and 2 employees of the internal troops were killed.