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Strike at copper-molybdenum plant halts Armenia’s largest taxpayer

Armenia

February 05, 2025

2,448 employees of the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Plant demand a pay raise. A total of 4,600 people work here.

Protest action or blackmail? Yerevan residents face transport crisis as bus drivers strike

Armenia

December 03, 2024

Bus drivers demand better pay and conditions, but the city calls it "blackmail" and refuses to compromise.

Strikes and blocked roads in Armenia: how the opposition is trying to overthrow the PM

Politics in Armenia

December 22, 2020

Opposition Prime Minister candidate Vazgen Manukyan called on the army and police to join the opposition movement and together to achieve the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan

"We won’t let them crush us” – 90 journalists go on strike on regional TV channel in Georgia

March 05, 2020

This is a battle for freedom of speech, journalists say. Experts confirm - Georgian authorities have gained control over TV channels in preparation for parliamentary elections

Teachers join protesting students in Yerevan, go on one-day strike

November 13, 2019

The reason for the protest is a Ministry of Education bill proposing to make the study of the Armenian language, literature and history of Armenia optional for non-humanities students in universities

Armenian students, teachers protest against bill proposing to do away with courses in Armenian language

November 07, 2019

Students and teachers of Yerevan State University went on strike against the decision to transfer all of these subjects to the optional list