The World - News from Sept. 6, 1989
Strikes spawned by disputes between rival ethnic groups spread to more factories and businesses in Moldavia and Azerbaijan, sources in the two Soviet republics said. In Azerbaijan, a nationalist group called on Moscow to give it control of the disputed Azerbaijani enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is populated mainly by ethnic Armenians. The enclave is now under direct rule by Moscow. In Moldavia, members of the ethnic Russian minority are striking to protest a law that makes Moldavian the republic’s official language.
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