Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in charge of urban engineering. “We did not invest in modernization. Instead, we invested in maintaining all that outdated infrastructure.”

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    9 months ago

    A good storm in the northeast can knock the power system.

    But they didn’t mention a storm in Moscow, that’s the thing isn’? And the outages have been at multiple places across the RF.

    Here is a link fromThe Moscow Times

    Also nobody knows what you are talking about when you say northeast : NE from where?

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      9 months ago

      Good point. North east US.

      And you are right they didn’t mention a storm, but that’s not my point. The article title clearly exacerbates the problem, and points the blame in a way that suggests the Russians are either too stupid or too poor to fix the problem. Why should any of us care about such a small thing for one? And two, what is their intention? It’s well known that NYtimes toes the state line when it comes to propaganda against American “enemies” .

      Really the only thing useful from the article is:

      “20,000 without heat in Russia due to infrastructure failure. Crews working to fix it.”

      But then why would anyone care about that?