Federal television channels refused to fully cover the blackout in the Murmansk region.
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According to his observations, the most time was devoted to this accident by the Russia 1 TV channel in its Saturday morning broadcast – in less than two minutes it told about it Murmansk и Severomorsk, without power due to bad weather. The evening broadcast devoted about 20 seconds to this topic, and on Sunday it was completely ignored.
Channel One devoted only 10 seconds to the Murmansk Region on Saturday morning, emphasizing that the storm winds had "caused disaster." After that, the region was not mentioned at all.
UK считает The cause of the accident was negligence: of the five high-voltage towers that fell on January 23, four had completely exhausted their 40-year service life (two were installed back in 1966, and two more in 1982).