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...month, railways have been blocked between the tiny Caucasus republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are battling for control of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade has severely curtailed supplies of food, medicine and gasoline in Armenia. Last week coal miners in the Ukrainian town of Chervonograd held a brief warning strike to demand immediate implementation of government pledges to raise wages and improve conditions. When one Minister called for postponing the expensive concessions, Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov rejected the proposal. "The government must keep its word," he said. Soviet legislators are concerned that if such strikes continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union In the School of Democracy | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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