Energy Crisis Leads to Resignations
A weeks-long energy crisis that has left tens of thousands of Russians freezing in their homes claimed the first political scalps of President Vladimir V. Putin’s year-old administration. Energy Minister Alexander Gavrin resigned after Putin signed an unusually blunt decree accusing him of a “chronic inability to solve the sector’s problems.”
The governor of the Primorye region also told Putin that he would quit, and Putin later called for a management shake-up at national electricity utility RAO UES.
Shortages, poor distribution and industrial mishaps have left many residents without power or heat.
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