Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Russian miners’ rail blockades (1998)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The rail war”
May 1998 — Owed months of wages, coal miners blocked the Trans-Siberian Railway at Anzhero-Sudzhensk. Others blocked lines in the far north and the south. Three months later, on 17 August, the government could not pay its debts: it defaulted and let the rouble collapse.
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