“Downgrading of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of Kyrgyzstan to an agency will bury the mining industry,” Chairman of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union Eldar Tadzhibaev declared. According to him, proposals on creation of an independent Ministry of Energy and the restoration of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral…
“If we want to defeat corruption and bring order to the mining industry, it is necessary to adopt a law that forces all companies to disclose information about final beneficiaries – shareholders,” an expert Sheradil Baktygulov declared. He noted that a similar rule was applied in US and Canada. “According to the legislation of Kyrgyzstan,…
Some 300 miners have blocked the Vinnichenko street in Lviv, where the Lviv regional state administration is situated. They demand clearing salary debts. Prior to that the miners have marched through the central streets of the city. They claim they have so far received only half of their December 2018 salary, and nothing for January.…
The Cabinet of Ministers could provide 450 million UAH to pay for electric energy consumed by state coal mining enterprises in 2019. According to the Cabinet order, these expenses will be covered from the state budget reserve fund. Because of large debts of state mines for electricity there are no companies wanting to supply it…
The Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev proposes to create a state-owned mining company. According to the head of government, the state-owned company can be opened on the basis of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC. “Kyrgyzaltyn hardly works. The company, owning many fields, gave its share to others and as a result remained with Makmal alone. If there…
It is necessary to change the tax rates in the mining industry, the President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov said at a meeting of the Security Council on Measures to Ensure Security in Subsoil Use Sphere in the Kyrgyz Republic. The head of state noted that taxes in the mining industry ranged from 15% to 50%…
Employees of the Scheglovskaya-Glubokaya mine in the temporarily occupied Donbass received 4 and 6 rubles as salary. “4 and 6 rubles, not thousand rubles. This shows the level of salary and life in the so-called republic”, wrote one of the miners in the social networks. Miners also share screenshots of their wages. One “boasts” receiving…
As of December 1, 2018 the salary debt to state miners was over 196 million UAH. The total indebtedness was 234.7 million UAH, up by 84.1 million UAH since the start of the year. Recently the Kurakhovskaya mine employees have announced a hunger strike because of non-payment of salary. (Ukrainian metal)
