Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold a videoconference with one of his deputies in the western Siberian city of Novokuznetsk following the Raspadskaya coal blast that killed scores of miners, a Russian government spokesman said on Monday. Two explosions hit the Raspadskaya mine near the town of Mezhdurechensk in the Kemerovo Region a week ago, killing 66 people and leaving over 100 injured. Twenty-four people are still missing underground. "The accident at the Raspadskaya coal mine will be discussed during the videoconference along with the situation in the coal industry as a whole," the statement said. According to the government`s press service, Putin will be in the Situation Room in Moscow to discuss the miners` working conditions, wages, and their relations with the mine`s owners with First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, who is presently in the Kemerovo Region. The head of the Russian Investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, will also take part in the conference along with the government bodies` representatives and Raspadskaya owners. Raspadskaya officials have become the targets of fierce criticism over the accident, and investigators denied on Saturday reports that the company`s top executives were under house arrest. Miners and their families protested in Mezhdurechensk on Friday. The protesters complained of low wages and lax enforcement of safety regulations. Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev on Saturday blamed the fatal accident at the Raspadskaya coalmine on the owners of the mine, saying they were irresponsible to issues of safety and technology.