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
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.
AI Data Center in Hrazdan Proceeds While Environmental Checks Are Bypassed
Firebird AI’s project smokescreens a multitude of issues that such a large-scale enterprise could raise, particularly for the environment and public health..
Listen to an Unprofessional Ukrainian
I remember meeting my brother at the kamvolni. His face streaked with blood, one eye swollen, clothes torn...
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
“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”
Demarcation on the Ground: Along Armenia’s Tavush
In Shamshadin, people want the borders to reopen. In Azatamut, they prefer things to stay as they are. One thing is clear: it won’t be like it was before 1987..
‘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
Through foraging, Anahit raised four children and put three of them through higher education — “exclusively thanks to nature”..
The Allure of the Armash Lakes
Mary and I went down to Yeraskh, the last village in the Ararat Valley, right on the border with Nakhichevan...
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
Single people displaced from Karabakh have no way to find housing even in remote villages in Armenia. There...