Family members of the five “Yak-40” plane crew who died in a 2001 air accident over northern Iran, once again took their protest before the Government Building in downtown Yerevan. The women are demanding that the financial compensation that they had been receiving and which stopped in 2007, be continued. They argue that without their husbands they have no means of supporting their families. One of the demonstrators Larisa Ohanyan, who lost her husband, stated, “I’m just not able to raise my kids. All that’s left is for me to douse myself with gasoline and strike a match. They can take my kids to an orphanage.” The women have demanded an audience with Prime Minister Sargsyan but he has refused to meet with them. Instead, Heritage Party MP Anahit Bakhshyan approached them and promised to raise the issue at the first quarterly session of the parliament in 2010. After meeting with MP Bakhshyan, the women once again took their protest to the Presidential Palace. They still haven’t received a response to the petition they delivered there on December 21.