Here’s an interesting clip that shows how people outside Yerevan take their complaints to the streets, literally.

These senior citizens you see here, residents of several villages from the Abaran area, claim that they haven’t received their pensions for the past week.

Amidst the shouting and emotional outbursts, it is clear that they feel they have no other recourse but to stop traffic on the local highway.

Naturally, police officials quickly arrived on the scene to reopen the road and to calm passions.

The seniors, who say they have been forced to buy food and other goods on credit, seem steadfast.

One old-timer, in a face to face confrontation with a local official, openly said he would bring all the kids and women from his village to form a human wall on the road.

Another said that at his age he has nothing to lose by taking such actions.

From what I could gather from the various overlapping conversations is that certain “big-wigs” have delayed the pension payment from the area and are using the money for personal business interests.

One protestor named   RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan’s sister’s son as one of the culprits.