by Tom Warner Russia, Ukraine Miners Demand Wages, Oppose Reform Hundreds of thousands of coal miners began nationwide strikes in Ukraine and Russia on 1 February, protesting their employers’ failure to pay up to six months of wages and demanding continued subsidies for the countries’ ailing coal industries. As a political force, Russia’s miners have turned away from President Boris […]

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