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Borjomi’s mayor and staff go on strike

3 March 2018 by OC Media

Georgian Dream organised a rally in Borjomi on 1 March demanding the head of the council resign. (Samkhretis Karibche)

The mayor of Borjomi Munic­i­pal­i­ty, in southern Georgia’s Samtskhe–Javakheti Region, refused to show up for work on 2 March, along with 90 other employees of the mayor’s office. They went on strike after not being paid for the past three months, in a dis­agree­ment between the municipal council (sakrebulo) and the mayor’s office over pay. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: alliance of patriots, armenian church, borjomi, georgia, human rights, mayor, parliament, police, protest, rally, salary

Construction next to Tbilisi Armenian church ‘illegal’

12 September 2017 by OC Media

Con­struc­tion site near the Armenian church (TDI photo)

A con­struc­tion permit to build a res­i­den­tial building in close vicinity to a damaged Armenian church in Tbilisi was issued illegally, according to a new study by Georgian rights group the Tolerance and Diversity Institute (TDI). [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Armenia, armenian church, avlabari, church, construction, cultural heritage, georgia, illegal construction

Armenia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses: ‘enemies of the state’

12 June 2017 by Armine Avetisyan

Rima Grigoryan (Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)

Armenian identity is so tightly inter­wo­ven with religion that it can often be heard that the only true Armenian is a follower of the Armenian Church. Contempt, dis­crim­i­na­tion, and outright hatred towards religious minori­ties have led to a wor­ry­ing­ly wide­spread per­cep­tion of them as outsiders — a threat to Armenian statehood. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: Armenia, armenian apostolic church, armenian church, catholics, discrimination, human rights, jehovah's witnesses, jw, Pentecostals

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