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Title: Freezing Russians forced to cook their meals in the street
Source: The Telegraph
URL Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl ... 10784f69910685967ba8c0ab&ei=26
Published: Jan 20, 2024
Author: James Kilner, Lily Shanagher
Post Date: 2024-01-21 16:21:08 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 312
Comments: 5

Freezing Russians forced to cook their meals in the street

Story by James Kilner, Lily Shanagher • 20 January 2024

People gather round a mobile kitchen after dozens of residential buildings were left without central heating due to a housing service accident caused by a cold snap in the town of Klimovsk near Moscow - Reuters/EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA
© Provided by The Telegraph

Thousands of Russians are living without heating through a freezing winter that is breaking the country’s fragile Soviet-era infrastructure.

Hot water pipes are bursting, electricity is failing and radiators are freezing across Russia, triggering complaints from angry locals who have accused officials of incompetence two months before a presidential election.

In videos posted this week from Nizhny Novgorod, 265 miles east of Moscow, residents were evacuating apartments flooded with steaming boiling water.

“The apartment is completely destroyed. The apartment is uninhabitable,” said one man as he filmed water pouring through the ceiling.

After dozens of residential buildings were left without central heating in Klimovsk, a town in the Moscow region, a mobile kitchen with a wood- burning furnace was set up for residents left cold and unable to cook. In Novosibirsk, Siberia, a major pipe burst on Wednesday, projecting a spout of boiling water high into the air which burnt 13 people and left entire apartment blocks without heating during one of Russia’s coldest winters for decades.

A resident of Novosibirsk said she was upset but was not surprised.

“Of course people are upset. They have been in the cold, with children, since January 11,” she said, declining to give her name. “I wasn’t surprised at all. It would have happened at some point because the pipes that burst were laid back in 1973 and 1963.”

Municipal officials have admitted that the burst pipe in Novosibirsk was laid in 1963 and was last repaired in 1990, a year before the Soviet Union collapsed.

In Khimki, a suburb of Moscow, freezing residents have taken to huddling around a fire on the street to keep warm in temperatures of -25C.

“We haven’t had any heating since January 2. The authorities are aware of the problem,” said a woman in a video of several people holding up ‘SOS’ signs. “Please help us, we are desperate.”

A municipal worker removes snow during snowfall and cold weather in Moscow - YURI KOCHETKOV/EPA
© Provided by The Telegraph

Campaigners have said that chronic underfunding has undermined civilian infrastructure in Russia.

Russia’s centrally controlled hot water systems were built in the Soviet Union and struggle under extreme temperature changes which have been harsh this year.

Analysts said that with an election in mid-March, these failures undermine the Kremlin’s message that Vladimir Putin is the tough and competent leader that ordinary Russians need, although he is still guaranteed to win.

“The heating emergencies around Russia, the result of long-term underinvestment in public utilities infrastructure, complicate that narrative,” said Ben Noble, associate professor of Russian Politics at UCL.

And civilians’ gripes are unlikely to be smoothed out any time soon.

A couple stands on the Komendantskaya pier of the Peter and Paul Fortress and looks at the frozen Neva River during abnormal frosts in St. Petersburg - Zuma Press / eyevine/Artem Priakhin
© Provided by The Telegraph

Putin has prioritised his army over civilian demands, approving a massive boost in military funding and co-opting everything from shopping malls to bakeries to produce weapons for the war effort in Ukraine.

But fracturing infrastructure is not the only internal problem facing Putin. Although protests are effectively banned, demonstrations in Bashkortostan, a region with a large Muslim population that lies south of the Ural Mountains, against mobilisation have been growing.

People in Dagestan, in southern Russia on the Caspian Sea, have also been protesting since the summer about failing infrastructure and the wives and mothers of mobilised men have been campaigning for the return of their men from frontlines in Ukraine.


Poster Comment:

Our infrastructure here is not so bad. But the City lost $55,000 on the water system a few years ago and everyone got 20% water rate increases the last two years.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

An amrican journalist was tortured to death in the ukraine.

no context, just thought it fit here.

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titorite  posted on  2024-01-21   16:23:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Who wrote this, Zelensky or Blinken??

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FormerLurker  posted on  2024-01-21   16:33:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Find a source other than MSN. The Ukraine has lost this war. 500,000 dead.

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Horse  posted on  2024-01-21   16:56:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Horse, FormerLurker (#3)

Find a source other than MSN.

The Telegraph is the source. The authors are listed above. ;)

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BTP Holdings  posted on  2024-01-21   18:21:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

Putin has prioritised his army over civilian demands

The crowning irony in an obviously truthful article "bursting" with them. Russia has been for our entire lives, and tales of mass poverty there haven't improved over the years. Is it any wonder nobody wants to reproduce there anymore?

We've been hearing Ukraine lost for at least a year ;)

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2024-01-22   0:08:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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