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A land dispute in Daghestan’s Nogay District has caused a backlash against local Chinese migrant workers

17 August 2018 by Malik Butayev

Chinese migrant workers in Daghestan’s Nogay District (/OC Media)

A dispute between an entre­pre­neur and green­house owner in Daghestan’s Nogay district and residents of the village of Nariman took on an ethnic component after a video allegedly of Chinese workers cooking a dog alive went viral on social media. But some from the district have ques­tioned whether this is the true cause of the conflict.

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Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: agriculture, chinese, dagestan, daghestan, forestry, glasshouses, land ownership, migrant workers, migrants, nariman, nogai, nogay, russia, Terekli-Mekteb, tomatoes

Chechnya to punish ‘spreading rumours’ about food quality

11 July 2018 by OC Media

Grozny’s central market (Sergey Krasnov /Live­jour­nal)

The Chechen author­i­ties have announced they will punish people for ‘spreading rumours’ about the quality of local agri­cul­tur­al produce, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov announced on Monday. The move came in response to reports on social media that Chinese farmers working in Chechnya were using harmful pes­ti­cides.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: agriculture, chechnya, chinese, food, food safety, hysteria, labour migration, migrant workers, panic, ramzan kadyrov, rumours

Has Abkhazia’s new Labour Code made a difference for workers?

6 December 2017 by Dmitry Stateynov

The Ministry of Labor and Social Devel­op­ment of Abkhazia (/Sputnik Abkhazia)

A new Labour Code came into force in Abkhazia in January 2017, which on paper, sig­nif­i­cant­ly expands the rights of workers. But the law has lim­i­ta­tions, and not all workers know their rights.

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Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: abkhazia, labour code, labour inspection, Labour Inspectorate, labour rights, migrant workers

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

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Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

Javid Agha

In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature.

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