The World - News from Sept. 6, 1989
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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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