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growing frustration and urged local authorities to restore heating in their homes.In Podolsk, a town some 30 kilometers south of the capital
There is no heating and no hot water
said Yuri, who declined to provide his surname
"We have had no heating for almost six days."The Moscow region, where temperatures have plunged to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius in the
past week, as well as the Far East Primorye region, the cities of Moscow and St
Petersburg, Penza, the southern Voronezh and Volgograd regions and others, have all been affected by heating outages this winter.In the Tver
complaints everywhere but no one listens to us
a clinic and a hospital, as well as kindergartens, where there is no heating
and declared a state of emergency.Local authorities linked the heating problems to the fact that the town is heated by a boiler plant owned
Vice Governor Yevgeny Khromushin said last week
street in Podolsk, Moscow region.MTIn the neighboring Tver region, authorities opened a criminal case over the laundering of over 84 million
rubles ($938,993) in residents' heating bills, the Astra Telegram channel reported this week, citing unidentified sources
Investigators claim the heads of the local water intake and boiler house misappropriated the payments for personal use.Reacting to the
heating failures, Putin on Tuesday asked Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov to provide heat and electricity to the affected
corruption and mismanagement.The overall decay of Russia's municipal infrastructure surpassed 70% in 2022, the pro-Kremlin newspaper
still in use as recently as two years ago in some cases.Housing, utilities and communal services are a common source of problems for
Russians during the winter.In St
hospital over the years due to slipping and falling accidents.In the Siberian republic of Khakassia, two villages were left without
electricity last month due to apparent issues with outdated infrastructure.Podolsk, Moscow region.MTIn the winter of 2020, five people in
the Perm region were killed after a pipe burst.When asked about the latest heating outages, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged the
remains considerably deteriorated
said.As for now, those affected by heating issues appear to lack optimism that the problems will be solved efficiently."It's been a week
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