The World - News from Sept. 5, 1989
Strikers shut down factories, stores and public transportation in Soviet Azerbaijan in a bid to regain their republic’s control of a region disputed with neighboring Armenia. Strike leaders claimed that 95% of factories in the capital of Baku were shut by the strike and that freight trains were halted throughout the republic, Nazim Ragimov, an independent journalist, told the Associated Press in Moscow by telephone. The strikers demanded that Azerbaijan reassert control over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave now under the rule of the central government in Moscow.
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