Russian miners declared a hunger strike due to unpaid wages.

Employees of the "Inskaya" mine in the Kemerovo region declared a hunger strike due to unpaid wages and set up tents near the administrative building of the enterprise. This was reported by The Moscow Times.

After meeting with the mine owner Denis Nemykin, the striking miners decided to declare their action. The director of the enterprise, Roman Fidler, stated that the miners have not been paid for four months. The total debt to employees amounts to 46 million rubles. In addition, there are significant debts for water and electricity at the mine, and insufficient funds for industrial safety.

The mine owner Nemykin admitted that he did not provide the staff, equipment completeness, and repair equipment. He emphasized that there are still 300 thousand tons of coal left in the mine and urged the miners to extract it. The owner also promised to partially repay the wage debt within a week. However, Director Fidler noted that due to the significant wear of equipment and mechanisms, the extraction of the remaining coal is impossible.

The hunger strike of the miners will continue until full payment of wages. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has already started a criminal investigation into non-payment of wages.

It should be noted that repressions against officials accused of corruption continue in Russia. This concerns not only the Ministry of Defense but also other security structures.

By the way, Russian civil servants have increased their spending on purchasing iPhones fourfold, despite the ban on their use in government institutions.