Stranded workers to be freed

More than 30 laborers are expected to return to China after being stranded in Russia for more than four months following a contract dispute.

Jin Weidong, the manager of a Beijing furniture company that allegedly recruited the workers, left Beijing yesterday to negotiate with the Russian company for the men's release .

Families of the workers said the men have little money to buy food and that some have fallen ill since they left Beijing on July 25.