RUSSIAN MINERS THREATEN STRIKE.

Vitali Budko, leader of the Russian Coal Workers’ Union, has warned that the nonpayments crisis — which has already been blamed for the electricity outages that hit homes and factories in Russia’s Far East last week — could provoke a nationwide miners’ strike later in the year. Miners in many parts of Russia have still not been paid for several months. (Interfax, July 22)

Tver Bank Loses License.