Non-Moscow news for the night of March 26
🔹 A village resident Grain died as a result of a drone attack on Bryansk region, the governor said Alexander Bogomaz. As for the Belgorod region A resident of the village of Belyanka was injured; she was in a car attacked by an FPV drone, the regional head wrote. Vyacheslav GladkovAccording to his information, two more people were killed and one was wounded on the farm. Family and in the city Grayvoron.
🔹 KINEF Oil Refinery attacked in Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, local residents report. The governor confirmed damage to the industrial zone. Alexander DrozdenkoKINEF is the largest oil refinery in the region and one of the largest in Russia. It produces gasoline, diesel, kerosene, fuel oil, and petrochemicals.
🔹 Leader of the Yabloko party Nikolay Rybakov Yabloko sent a petition to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding an investigation into reports that authorities burned thousands of animals alive in the Novosibirsk Region. As the publication Takie Dela discovered, the drugs used by the veterinary service to confiscate the livestock could only paralyze the animals' muscles, leaving them feeling and maintaining brain function. This means the animals experienced suffocation, fear, and pain during their death, Yabloko noted, which falls under the statute on animal cruelty. The party is asking the Prosecutor General's Office to provide a legal assessment of the incident.
🔹 274 houses and 33 social facilities were left without water and heating in Chita, the mayor's office reported. The outages were attributed to a "heating main reconnection" being carried out by heat supplier TGK-14. The timeline for the work was promised to be clarified later. “Every evening we sit with barely warm water, and in the summer they don’t do anything because they just turn off [the hot water],” “This is already the third outage in a month… We pay money for the cold,” local residents are outraged.
🔹 Scammers on the national messenger Max created a fake account of the head of parliament. Buryatia Vladimir Pavlov and messages are being sent in his name, UlanMedia reported. The authorities, however, reminded people that they were publishing information from Pavlov on the parliament's page and urged them to "be vigilant and not fall for the scammers' tricks."
🔹 Head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova stated that in Russia they will be able to organize electronic voting even in places where there is no internet – via satellite communications. "The other day, Bureau 1440 launched its first satellites. We've been working with them for two years now, and I understand an agreement is on the way. My crazy idea is remote voting, as I call it—not remote electronic voting, but via satellites." - said Pamfilova.
