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Kalashnikov producer to pay wages in sugar

Published: 10 April, 2009, 14:23


Mounting salary debts are forcing some companies to resort to radical moves in a bid to quell uproar. An arms factory in the Kirov region in central Russia has decided to hand over food to employees instead of money.

 
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