100 rubles for electricity and water: Residents of a village in Krasnoyarsk Krai complained to Putin about unaffordable utility bills. 

Residents of the village of Brazhnoye we went to Moscow to directly address their problem to Putin. Back in August, they told Regarding inflated utility rates: while a cubic meter of water costs 38 rubles in Krasnoyarsk, in Brazhny it's 691 rubles. Rural residents, mostly single pensioners, are receiving bills of 100 rubles per month. 

Tariffs increased sharply after Kommunalnye Resursy LLC, owned by regional government entities, became the utility provider. The Kansky District administration has such bills. explained the fact that the depreciation of housing and communal services infrastructure amounts to more than 80%, and their repair requires additional costs. 

"Nobody in Moscow knew about our problem. Everyone saw our bills and stared at them wide-eyed in amazement." — says Konstantin Rabetsky, one of the active residents of Brazhnoye. 

Utility rates in Russia's regions are rising annually, while residents of the Urals and Siberia regularly suffer from burst pipes and are left without heat in temperatures as low as -30 degrees Celsius. Why Russia's housing and utilities sector is on the brink of disaster? Read in the material of "NeMoskva".