RUSSIA: MINERS DEMAND THAT BORIS YELTSIN STEPS DOWN

Russian/Nat As Russian workers prepare for a national strike on Wednesday, in protest at the deep economic crisis facing the country, miners have begun to demand that President Boris Yeltsin step down. It’s an ironic twist, given that an unprecedented strike by Soviet miners was one force that drove Yeltsin to power. APTN has a special report from the Siberian heartland and the city of Kemerovo, the centre of Russia’s mining industry, where a workforce that hasn’t been paid in months is looking f