Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes?

Riddick3001@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.world – 160 points –
Why are so many Russians freezing in their homes? – DW – 01/18/2024
dw.com

Russia boasts a massive energy infrastructure, but a recent wave of heating system breakdowns has left many of its citizens scrambling to keep the frost outside. We are still using the communal infrastructure that was made during the Soviet era," said Svetlana Razvorotneva, a Russian lawmaker and member of the committee in charge of urban engineering. "We did not invest in modernization. Instead, we invested in maintaining all that outdated infrastructure."

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Is Russia Texas?

>Oil barons

> Guns

> Silly hats

> Invading neighbors

> Racism

You might be onto something.

No, but Texas might be Russia next year

Don’t be too hasty, I hear daddy Putin is puttin together a conservative bigot fascist bootlicker utopia that totally won’t be end up being closer to a ^meat^ ^grinder^ ^waiting^ ^line^

Tex wishes it were the other way around, the fucking nonces