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UES Management Faces Criminal Investigation After Moscow Power Cut Russian prosecutors on Wednesday opened a criminal case against the management of power monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) after a major power outage in Moscow, agencies reported Wednesday. The case was opened to investigate possible negligence, the Interfax agency quoted the Prosecutor General’s Office as saying. Under Russian law, prosecutors must formally open a criminal case to allow police fully to investigate the incident. It does not necessarily lead to prosecution, Reuters reports. President Vladimir Putin has already blamed UES Chief Executive Anatoly Chubais for the power cut which left much of the capital without power, saying management had neglected the company’s problems to concentrate on a restructuring plan. Chubais, a leading political liberal who is spearheading the reform of the electricity giant, is viewed with suspicion by Kremlin hardliners, Reuters adds. http://mosnews.com/news/2005/05/25/chubaiscriminalcase.shtml - ferg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read Russian, there is a lot more information on the BBC's Russian language page here http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_4578000/4578219.stm The cascading failure affected Moscow and towns as far as 200km south of the city. 95% of people were evacuated from the Metro by 1pm. They are restoring power in phases, hospitals are expected to be running by 3 pm Moscow time. The outage hit the southern half of Moscow and some parts of the northern half of the city. Many traffic signals were down and militia officers were manually directing traffic. No mention of Internet stuff but they do point out that the space flight centre in Korolev was functioning normally. --Michael Dillon -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
