On Sakhalin Basten UNDERGROUND MINERS ARE 20
By thirteen Sakhalin miners who declared underground strike, joined by seven others. The protest is held in the village Shahtersk in an abandoned mine, which no guards. At a depth of 142 meters miners occupied the vacant warehouse of explosives and said they did not rise to the surface as long as the miners are paid in full all arrears of wages.
The mine working 428 people, the debt to them is 34 million rubles.
Union committee mine Nikolai Ovchinnikov said: miners under the ground, there is no food. On mine there was a meeting today, the workers said the moral support of their comrades - the protesters. Miners ready to go on hunger strike, now they stay on the same water.
