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1998 Russian miners' strike

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family, a schoolboy hanged himself, and left a note that said, 'I'm tired of listening to quarrels with my mother over money.' In another family, the father himself could not stand it - he blew himself up. Three of us have committed suicide. We are slaves and cattle. We slave away, and the bosses eat. We cannot live like this anymore!"
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arrived in the Kuzbass. After the visit, wages began to be paid from the federal budget. The government promised to pay off the debts of employees and pensioners of Kemerovo Oblast by 1 July. On 23 May, strikers cleared the roads in Mezhdurechensk, and traffic continued in the southern Kuzbass. On 24
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Strikers in the Kuzbass only allowed trains of local origin, strategic importance, or those providing aid to miners. The transportation of cargo and passengers to and from the Russian Far East was, as a result, completely halted. On 20 May 1998, a state of emergency was declared in Kemerovo Oblast.
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walked out after being denied their wages for seven months. One miner said, "There is no money for the essentials. We have to ask for money from retired parents, whom we ourselves must help. And they know what their pension is. I'm ashamed. My son is asking me, 'Dad, are we going to die?' In one
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on the strikes stated, "Indignation at the illegal delays in wages and the inability to tolerate the brazen continuation of non-payments have brought popular opinion in the coal regions to such a fury that people, striving for legitimate goals and values recognised by society, are ready to achieve
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By 1 June, however, the government had failed to fulfil its promises, and strikes, as well as blockages of important routes, resumed. On 19 July, Sysuyev returned to the Kuzbass, this time bringing 730 million
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Prior to the strikes, miners in Russia had called out the non-payment of wages. However, there was no response from the government of Russia. A multiple-month strike in
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May, the main route of the Trans-Siberian Railway was once again operable after blockages in Yurga and Anzhero-Sudzhensk dispersed.
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with him. That day, the blockage of lines in the Kuzbass ceased for the final time, and strikers returned to work.
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In May 1998, protesters blocked several key highways for two to three weeks. In the town of
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Russian coal miners began to go on strike in May 1998, when miners in the town of
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In late May, a commission headed by Deputy Prime Minister
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At first, trains sought to avoid strikes by going through
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was completely ignored by pro-government media, such as
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Index

1998 Russian financial crisis
Komi Republic
Kemerovo
Rostov Oblasts
Russia
wages
Strikes
nonviolent resistance
civil disobedience
Government of Russia
Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia
Sergey Kiriyenko
Prime Minister of Russia
Nikolai Aksyonenko
Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia
Moscow
Public Russian Television
Vorkuta
Inta
Komi Republic
Kuznetsk Basin
Anzhero-Sudzhensk
Mezhdurechensk
Yurga
Siberia
Russian Far East
Tomsk Oblast
Trans-Siberian Railway

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