The World - News from July 6, 1989

Residents of the predominantly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh have lost about $53.5 million in wages because of a two-month general strike in the region, the Soviet Communist daily Pravda said. The newspaper also reported that Armenians continue to hold illegal demonstrations that threaten to trigger more ethnic clashes in the enclave. Nagorno-Karabakh is an autonomous region within the republic of Azerbaijan. The Armenian enclave is largely Christian, but the rest of the republic’s residents mainly are Muslims. The strike has cost Stepanakert, the autonomous region’s capital, about $38 million worth in manufactured goods, most of them intended for the surrounding region, Pravda said.