Posted on 04/09/2024 3:32:11 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russians left homeless following floods have directed their frustration towards President Vladimir Putin and local officials.
Over a hundred individuals sought aid from Putin on Monday after the city or Orsk was struck with the worst flooding ever recorded, expressing their discontent with local authorities whom they accuse of insufficient assistance.
An emergency was declared in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan, as the Ural River, Europe’s third longest, surged several meters in mere hours last Friday, breaching a dam embankment in the city.
Large portions of Orsk, situated 1,800 km east of Moscow with a population of 230,000, now lie submerged.
Protesters gathered outside the local administration building in Orsk, chanting slogans like "shame on you" and "Putin help," captured in video footage circulated by local media.
Many vented their anger at Mayor Vasily Kozupitsa and expressed dissatisfaction with the compensation offered for their destroyed or severely damaged properties. Some also lamented the failure of the dam embankment constructed in 2010 to protect their city.
Orenburg Governor Denis Pasler addressed a group of residents in Orsk, urging unity and cautioning against blame games.
However, regional prosecutors warned against participating in mass gatherings, as it "has not been coordinated with the authorities in accordance with the procedure established by law".
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They just re-elected him. 🤦♂️
You always rely on the worst sources, pinhead. Zoink.
“has not been coordinated with the authorities in accordance with the procedure established by law”. Which means whatever they say, shut up and we don’t care who you voted for Putin is king. We have some empty cells in Siberia by the way.
Did I miss the /s
Sure they “re-elected “ him, their other choices were?
So there were no protests after a dam built I think in 2014 failed?
Okay
The Russians probably did this on purpose. Just like the nuclear reactor, the Moscow theater, the pipeline,...
Obviously, This type of stuff only happens to countries that invade Ukraine
Mandatory evacuations remained in effect on Monday afternoon for nearly 190,000 people in Northern California after a spillway serving the country’s tallest dam suffered significant erosion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna720051
Also are egg prices still elevated in Russia? Because here food is much cheaper than 4 years ago ….
Tell me the difference between Putin, and xi.
One calls himself a communist, but impractical terms he is a dictator with a powerless communist council behind him.
Putin was “elected” but in practical terms is a dictator with a powerless duma behind him
No difference between the two
Even during the Soviet Union under the guise of socialism, Stalin was a dictator and the term socialist was just window dressing
The city of Orsk has over 200,000 residents, yet apparenrly only a little over a hundred showed up requesting aid from Putin? That’s a news story? It would be akin to a small crowd clamoring for aid from Washington D.C. after a major storm. If anything, their complaints are seemingly directed more towards their mayor and their local governor (as is proper).
Also, the dam in question appears to be an earthen dam, and we have over 70,000 in the United States alone. When they work, they’re just fine. But sometimes they fail, as happened in Orsk.
(For the record, America apparently suffers an average of 10 dam failures a year, but don’t let that get in the way of your bizarre Putin fixation.)
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