A wildcat strike has erupted in Kajaran, where over 2,000 miners and technicians at the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine demand better wages and conditions. This strike, the largest in decades, underscores Armenia’s weak worker protections, corporate power and the potential for broader social change.
Opposition movements linked to the Church and former regime figures can potentially threaten Armenia's struggling democracy. Garren Jansezian argues that progressive alternatives to both the governing elite and the opposition are needed now more than ever.
Over 30 years ago, a statue of Lenin towered over the heart of Yerevan until it was dismantled. The recent centennial of Lenin’s death went mostly unnoticed in Armenia but it might have sparked reflection on Lenin’s impact during the Sovietization of Armenia and how his definition of self-determination has had consequences on contemporary geopolitics.
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