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Taxi drivers stage protests in Yerevan and Gyumri (video)

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A group of individual taxi drivers (not employed by companies) gathered in front of the government building today protesting the recently amended law on Licensing which envisages that individual taxi drivers in Yerevan must pay AMD 12,000 a month to the state budget. A parallel protest was being held in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri where taxi drivers are to pay AMD 8000 to the state budget. The protesting drivers said they could hardly bare their abject needs with the money they earn and cannot afford to pay so much money to the state. A delegation of five taxi drivers today was received by Artur Arakelyan, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications. Details will be given later in the day.