Marches, More Arrests On Ninth Day Of Protests In Yerevan

RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple describes the scene as "polite, cheeky mass disobedience."

On a rainy, cold morning in Yerevan, protesters try to reason with police.

Protesters from Vayk, in southeast Armenia, pile atop a car on Republic Square in Yerevan on April 21. The square was full of people after different marches met in the city center.

Police try to remove a car that is preventing them from also removing a large truck that is blocking a road in Yerevan.

Protesters blocked a central crossroad in Yerevan. Around 60 police armed with nightsticks tried to hem them in, but with mostly young women in front, the police eventually gave up and retreated to a nearby courtyard.

Aerial view of Yerevan's Republic Square on the evening of April 21.