In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of February 7: Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance during official visit to Washington DC; trial of former Artsakh officials continues in Baku; miners and technicians at Armenia’s largest mine continue wildcat strike and more.
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.
In this week’s editorial, Maria Titizian writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerability of workers in Armenia.
EVN Report’s mission is to empower Armenia, inspire the diaspora and inform the world through sound, credible and fact-based reporting and commentary. Our goal is to increase public trust in the media. EVN Report is the media arm of EVN News Foundation registered in the Republic of Armenia in 2017.
