The strike of the Russe teachers ended on September 25, Info Radio reported. The protesting teachers and the government reached a compromise for the payment of the teachers` unpaid salaries for June, July and August. The August salaries of the teachers will be paid in September and the December salaries are to be paid in January 2002. The schools that were on strike will open on September 26. The leaders of the Russe teacher syndicates Maria Stancheva and Vesselina Krumova put an end to their hunger strike too.