Word: kuzbass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his displays of combat fatigue last week, Yeltsin took his campaign to the Kuzbass, a mining area of western Siberia that has been a strong power base for him in recent years. He found that the miners are still on his side, but their ardor has cooled. He seemed almost apologetic when he asked them to help him break the stalemate in Moscow. "Our policy squabbling at the highest level," he said, "is a crime and should be stopped...
When coal miners in Siberia's Kuzbass region walked off the job in early March, they vowed not to return until Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned. Last week, with Gorbachev still in office, the miners ended their strike, but only after he ceded Kremlin control of the coalpits to the Russian republic...