INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Office was reported to have banned residents from taking to the streets in protest against the heating outages.Over the past week, boiling
water has spewed into the streets of Novosibirsk several times after underground pipes burst, leaving hundreds of households disconnected
safety violations after the first pipe damage last week.Utility provider Siberian Generating Company said one of the damaged heating mains
was built in 1974.Governor Travnikov said authorities were recruiting additional technical crews to speed up repair work, but he did not
indicate when central heating is expected to be restored.Meanwhile, temperatures in Novosibirsk have hovered around a frigid minus 20
holidays, with bone-chilling weather across much of the country compounding the severity of what is quickly growing into a major crisis for
