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Daily Brief

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * The striking employees of the Zangezur mine met with the company’s management yesterday, but failed to reach an agreement. The employees called the meeting ‘quite constructive’, telling RFE/RL that the sides have ‘bilateral contact’ and would have meetings in case of new proposals or changes in their respective positions. Meanwhile, they would continue their strike and ‘probably move on to the next step we planned, which is greater public pressure’. * Yesterday in Washington, Prime

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * The EU’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus Magdalena Grono has told Armenpress she had heard ‘encouraging statements regarding peace and stability’ from Baku. She said that the statements she heard were ‘often different from what we have heard in the public space’. Armenia * RFE/RL has reported that 2,448 out of 4,600 Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine employees voted in favour of demands to increase their salary and improve their working conditions. Employees of

Daily Brief

Monday, 3 February 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * Employees of the Zangezur mine began a strike in demand of better working conditions and pay on Friday. The mine, and its trade union, have issued a joint statement saying that the strike was held ‘in violation of the labour legislation’, and that the striking employees were demanding ‘an unrealistic salary increase ultimatum, which has sabotaged the operation of the company’. The Zangezur mine is the biggest tax-paying company in Armenia. * The authorities have launched a criminal

Daily Brief

Friday, 31 January 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili has said that Georgia ‘really wants to be a facilitator’ in the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan. * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze expressed their readiness to activate the process of border delimitations and ‘agreed that we will exert every effort in that direction’. * Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), has