WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Impact of Strikes, Unrest Detailed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Detailed figures released by the Soviet state statistics committee Goskomstat confirmed that spreading strikes and unrest are crippling the country’s economy. In the first three months of 1991, compared to 1990, gross national product fell 8%, productivity dropped 9% and foreign trade slumped by a third. Meanwhile, thousands of factory workers, outraged by steep price hikes which took effect April 2, have stopped work to back a six-week-old protest by 300,000 coal miners.
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