MOSCOW — According to Kemerovo province governor Aman Tuleyev in a broadcast on July 14, everyone in the city of Yurga condemned the local workers who were blocking the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Furthermore, Tuleyev
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MOSCOW — On Russia's labour scene, July traditionally has been a quiet month. Workers by mid-summer have been ready to set off on holiday, or to spend the warm, twilit evenings relaxing on their garden allotments. True, a
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MOSCOW — When Russia's new rich are called upon to invest, produce, pay their taxes and help save the country from economic oblivion, it is only to be expected that they will want a bribe. The anti-crisis economic program tabled
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MOSCOW — Early on June 11, a train drew into Yaroslavsky Station here, bringing 150 miners from the Pechora coal basin in the Arctic north. Linking arms, the miners marched through central Moscow to the building that houses the
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MOSCOW — No-one who has lived without a car in both Moscow and major western cities can be wholly cynical about the achievements of Soviet society. Whether it's twice-daily Sunday bus services to outlying Sydney suburbs, or the
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MOSCOW — In Russia, anyone who blows the whistle on the mishandling of radioactive waste can expect at least passing attention from the security forces. If the waste comes from naval reactors, and the whistle-blower is a serving
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MOSCOW — How much should Russians be made to pay for the armed defence of their country's new capitalism? Among millions of half-fed, seldom paid workers, the figure of zero roubles would no doubt spring to mind. Cutting all
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MOSCOW — Part of the Russian "soul", western tradition holds, is a unique bent for passive suffering. Centuries of peasant revolts, not to speak of other convulsions, give the lie to this myth. Nevertheless, it still gets
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Russian journalist held after nuclear waste exposéMOSCOW — Undeterred by the fiasco surrounding their prosecution of anti-nuclear activist Aleksandr Nikitin, Russia's security forces are holding another
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Russian miners die as government delays paymentsMOSCOW — Another horrific coal mine disaster has shocked the Russian public and angered coal industry workers. Early on January 18, an explosion and fire in the Tsentralnaya
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TB spreads in Russia as government chops health fundsMOSCOW — At about 2.5% of GDP, health spending in Russia last year compared poorly with western European levels of 7-8%. That was before the cost-cutters lopped another
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Russian miners targeted by anti-worker offensiveMOSCOW — According to recently announced plans of the Russian government, 1998 is to be the year when the country's coal industry is gutted and cut up, the most toothsome