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Moscow hit by major power outage (Blackout in Moscow)
BBC News World Edition ^ | May 25, 2005

Posted on 05/25/2005 6:39:31 AM PDT by Grey Squirrel

Edited on 05/25/2005 7:08:13 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

I cannot believe this has not been posted yet. This is my first post so I apologise for any inconsistensies errors etc. Also I only have sources of my native language about so no URL.

Blackout in Moscow and six surrounding oblasts. Water supply out. Hospitals, subway, police, trafic lights, 80% of internet etc. etc.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Moscow hit by major power outage


Moscow underground trains ground to a halt


A power cut has caused major disruption in the Russian capital, Moscow.

Public transport services ground to a halt, Moscow's main stock exchange stopped trading and water supplies to homes were affected.

The electricity outage was caused by a fire and explosion at a substation, the energy minister told parliament.

It is not clear what caused the blast. About 20,000 commuters are reported to have been evacuated from underground trains stranded by the outage.

A transport police spokesman said emergency power supplies were used to bring trains into stations.

Areas up to 200km (120 miles) south of the city were also reported to be have been affected.

Duma deputy speaker Vladimir Pekhtin ruled out the possibility that the power outage was caused by sabotage. He told NTV Mir that it was more likely to have been caused by a technical incident.

"We are checking the information, but we can now rule out deliberate sabotage," he said.

Rising temperatures

A spokeswoman for electricity monopoly RAO UES said the problem stemmed from a fire.

"The problem started yesterday evening. The reason was a fire in the switching equipment at the Chagino substation," she told Reuters news agency.

"Staff dealt with the fire and overnight changed the equipment. However during peak consumption time this morning the problem recurred."

The Micex stock exchange stopped trading for two hours as many of its clients did not have power.

There is some speculation that the power cut could have been due to an overload in demand as Moscow has seen unseasonably high temperatures and people have started using air conditioning.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: blackout; moscow; moscowblackout; newbie; russia
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To: AFPhys

I'm flying to Moscow in a few days and I hope the landing lights are on by the time we start descending!


21 posted on 05/25/2005 6:55:52 AM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Grey Squirrel
Welcome to Free Republic.

Thanks for letting us know about this. Fox News hasn't said anything yet, as far as I can tell.

22 posted on 05/25/2005 6:57:43 AM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: AFPhys

I remember thinking it was kinda fun. (LOL What did I know - I was a silly kid!). Using candles and sitting outside all night with my mom and my relatives was fun.


23 posted on 05/25/2005 6:58:59 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: wildandcrazyrussian

what 21 post and this hasn't been blamed on Bush yet?


24 posted on 05/25/2005 6:59:10 AM PDT by FearlessFreep
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To: michigander
"Moscow was plunged into chaos on Wednesday after a big power outage that President Vladimir Putin blamed on the state-owned electricity monopoly headed by a liberal politician viewed with suspicion by the Kremlin.

Chubais, one of Russia's best known figures who survived an assassination attempt in March, was quoted as saying he accepted full responsibility for the outage."


Vlad has an assassination fetish.
25 posted on 05/25/2005 7:00:55 AM PDT by Jaysun (No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
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To: SheLion
Now this...........

Chemical Plant Blows Up South of Moscow: Special Forces on Scene (debka/pravda)

26 posted on 05/25/2005 7:03:42 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: FearlessFreep
Rules are rules:

"It's Bush's fault!"

27 posted on 05/25/2005 7:05:14 AM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: FearlessFreep

Nope, but Lazamataz blamed Rove in reply #17. That is basically the same as blaming Bush.


28 posted on 05/25/2005 7:05:38 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Not one more dime to the RNC until you get a spine and act like the MAJORITY.)
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To: Grey Squirrel

Thanks for posting -- this is troubling news. Big time.


29 posted on 05/25/2005 7:09:06 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Alia

Why hasn't FOX reported on this yet I wonder?


30 posted on 05/25/2005 7:10:10 AM PDT by ReformedTreeHugger
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To: Grey Squirrel

More here:
http://news.google.com/news?q=moscow+power&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=on

Related to the chemical factory explosion somehow?


31 posted on 05/25/2005 7:14:22 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: OXENinFLA

Has there been a post by a credible source on the chemical plant?


32 posted on 05/25/2005 7:20:36 AM PDT by jer33 3
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To: Grey Squirrel; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; hellinahandcart; Lazamataz; Constitution Day; ...

Is posting by sqvirrel.

Coincidence??? NYET!!!!!!!

33 posted on 05/25/2005 7:20:45 AM PDT by dighton
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To: MeekOneGOP; Grzegorz 246; Lukasz

Ping.


34 posted on 05/25/2005 7:21:35 AM PDT by bd476
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To: dighton

LOL @ Boris Badenough!


35 posted on 05/25/2005 7:22:47 AM PDT by bd476
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To: Grey Squirrel

That seems to be a lot of items to go out for a single sub-station outage in a modern major city.


36 posted on 05/25/2005 7:23:23 AM PDT by snowsislander
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To: Grey Squirrel

Could it have been something related to the blast of Chemical Plant that was posted on Free Republic recently?


37 posted on 05/25/2005 7:27:01 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: jb6; RusIvan

ping


38 posted on 05/25/2005 7:27:19 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: Grey Squirrel

This is huge news in Germany as well. Everything is affected. 16 hospitals are working on generators. People don't have water and they are sending water trucks to help out.

WILD!!!!


39 posted on 05/25/2005 7:27:42 AM PDT by STFrancis
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To: ReformedTreeHugger

Probably trying to get more of the story, my two cents.


40 posted on 05/25/2005 7:27:54 AM PDT by Alia
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