14:50, 7 September 2016

Rostov-on-Don: Gukovo miners demand meeting with Golubev

A poster of the participants of the pickets in Gukovo. July 29, 2016. Photo by Valery Lyugaev for the "Caucasian Knot"

In Rostov-on-Don, near the building of the administration of the governor of the Rostov Region, miners are holding solo pickets, demanding the governor's arrival in Gukovo to decide the pay out of salary debts and ration coal.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported about the protests of employees of the enterprise from the group of companies named "Kingcoal", which are at different stages of bankruptcy. The salary debts exceed 300 million roubles.

The protesters are indignant that they get no salaries for more than a year, as well as at the fact that they are not provided with the so-called "ration coal" they need to heat their cold barracks built in 1952-54. They are also angry with the pro-govt media reporting the repayment of debts to miners, although they actually received "quite a bit."

Andrei Sizykh, a protester, who is a locomotive driver at the "Zamchalovskaya" mine, has noted that the "Kingcoal" company is private only formally, as it is entirely dependent on the state: it leases its entrails and uses loans and services of state-owned banks, for example, of the "Savings Bank".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Valery Lyugaev

Source: CK correspondent