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| Energy workers promised to return light to Makhachkala residents after street protests |
| 2023-12-14 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Residents of the Separatorny village blocked traffic along Akushinsky Avenue due to a two-day lack of electricity. The action stopped when the power engineers promised to provide light to the homes of Makhachkala residents within a few hours. The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that since August 9, several protests against power outages have taken place in Makhachkala. On the evening of August 25, local residents blocked traffic in Semender, after which the mayor's office announced the restoration of electricity supply. On August 26, residents of Gamidov Street achieved the restoration of electricity after the road was blocked. Residents of Makhachkala should more actively fight for their rights with the help of official complaints about power outages, Dagestan activists said and explained the procedure for filing complaints at a meeting with residents of the Reduktorny village. Residents of Makhachkala blocked Akushinsky Avenue today due to a two-day lack of electricity, Novoe Delo reported on its Telegram channel. As follows from the video published in the telegram channel “What’s up with the Dagestanis,” cars were stuck in a traffic jam and honking, and groups of people and police officers were visible at the crossing. The closure of the movement was confirmed by the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Gayana Garieva in her Telegram channel “Criminal Chronicle of Dagestan”. “The houses are incredibly cold, there is no water, there is no light. In some areas, they were notified of power supply, which has not actually been restored. Police officers are trying to control the situation,” she wrote. An hour after the start of the action, the Makhachly mayor’s office announced that traffic along Akushinsky Avenue had been restored. “Deputy Minister of Energy and Tariffs of the Republic of Dagestan Rajab Nabiev and employees of the Makhachkala City Hall continue to talk with residents of nearby houses,” municipal authorities wrote in their Telegram channel, The power supply to de-energized consumers in the village of Separatorov and Gamidov Street will be restored within two to three hours, the Dagestan Ministry of Energy promised. “The prolonged disconnection of consumers, according to power engineers, is due to the fact that specialists for a long time could not find the location of the damage to the power line. The situation was complicated by unfavorable weather conditions. Currently, power engineers are doing everything possible to quickly solve the problem,” the department reported with reference to company "Dagenergo" at 22.33 Moscow time. As follows from the video published in the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Energy of Dagestan, traffic has resumed on the road, groups of people are standing by the road. At a press conference between energy workers and the administration of Makhachkala on December 12, activists asked what the government had done to resolve the issue of power outages, and asked why Rosseti was not fined, because according to the law, if electricity is turned off for more than 72 hours," Rosseti should be fined from 600 thousand to a million rubles. To this, the head of the Ministry of Energy of Dagestan, Marat Shikhaliev, responded that their priority is improving the quality of services, not fines, the Patient Monitor/Housing and Communal Services project reported today. “We are still confident that it is the “flogging with a ruble” that will best force the energy workers to move,” the activists said in a statement. Since August 9, Makhachkala residents have blocked highways at least ten times, including today’s action, in protest against the power outage. Thus, in Semender, traffic was interrupted on August 24 and 25. On August 18, traffic along Akushinsky Avenue was blocked by residents of the Nauchny Gorodok microdistrict in Makhachkala, who demanded that the authorities solve the problem with the supply of water and electricity to their homes. On August 17, protests took place on Akushinsky Avenue, on the evening of August 16, local residents blocked Gamidov Avenue, and on August 15, residents of the Reduktorny village tried to block the road. On August 9, Makhachkala residents blocked Magomed Gadzhiev Street. On August 18, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, called the deterioration of electrical networks in the republic unthinkable; he turned to the federal authorities for help in solving this problem and called on residents of the republic not to block the routes. Residents of Makhachkala said that problems with electricity and water had been observed before, but in the last year they have worsened. |
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