What the records say
- When
- 1998 – Jul 1998
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 66.42° N, 94.25° E
- Description
- 1998 strike by Russian coal miners
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
1998 Russian miners' strike
1998 strike in Russia
The 1998 Russian miners' strike, also known as the "rail war", was a strike of Russian coal miners over the non-payment of wages after a year. In addition to the demands for wages, strikers demanded the resignation of Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia. The strikes eventually ended with the payment of wages by the mining companies involved.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в России начались массовые перекрытия железных дорог шахтёрами в знак протеста против длительных невыплат заработной платы”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page