2026, 15 June, Monday
Striking Tailors from Ijevan Sent Back to India

Striking Tailors from Ijevan Sent Back to India

This is not the first time the management of the Ijevan factory has simply sent publicly protesting workers back to India, replacing them with new groups of migrants recruited in Yerevan with the assistance of the Embassy of India.

How Migrant Workers Live and Why They are on Strike in Ijevan

How Migrant Workers Live and Why They are on Strike in Ijevan

Epress.am managed to enter the territory of the “semi-closed” factory, where the migrants not only work but also live, and spoke with participants of the strike as well as the company’s director.

Don’t Forget to Remember: Dementia Is No Priority for Armenian Health Care

Don’t Forget to Remember: Dementia Is No Priority for Armenian Health Care

Most often, we learn about the illness from the caregivers. They look exhausted, limit their social lives, struggle with depression and burnout..

Hair and Lip Fillers Off, Chest Flattened — I Go to See My Folks

Hair and Lip Fillers Off, Chest Flattened — I Go to See My Folks

People don’t really clock me: neighbors, shopkeepers — no clue I’m trans.

KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”

KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”

“The chance to speak Russian without an accent” — that’s how the chief explained his curiosity about our company. We, for our part, admitted that we’d never before shared a table with an officer of the Russian FSB.

Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin

Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin

“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”

‘Sew Faster’ at Gunpoint: Indian Workers Strike at Ijevan Factory

‘Sew Faster’ at Gunpoint: Indian Workers Strike at Ijevan Factory

Workers both live and work on-site, under continuous surveillance—more than 40 cameras are installed throughout the premises...

I’m a Workaholic. It’s Like Alcoholic, But For Work

I’m a Workaholic. It’s Like Alcoholic, But For Work

Through foraging, Anahit raised four children and put three of them through higher education — “exclusively thanks to nature”..

Zangezur Mine Workers Demand Pay Raises, Strike Enters Third Day

Zangezur Mine Workers Demand Pay Raises, Strike Enters Third Day

Armenia’s largest mine, the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC), has been at a standstill for three days as workers have gone on strike.

My friends feel closer to me than my family

My friends feel closer to me than my family

Single people displaced from Karabakh have no way to find housing even in remote villages in Armenia. There...

Collective Statement by the Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement

Collective Statement by the Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement

Against Azerbaijan’s Authoritarianism, COP29 and Green Capitalism, Wars, and Regional Slide into Authoritarianism

Dream That Takes Over Your Life: Indian Laborers In Armenia

Dream That Takes Over Your Life: Indian Laborers In Armenia

Touristic agencies are on the rise in India. Nearly every immigrant we spoke with had a “brother” working as a tourist agent, earning commissions for persuading......