And they still say they don't like our leaflet, which supposedly "stirs up discord and hostility between regions". What stirs up discord and hostility is not the leaflet, but the astonishing and bizarre manipulation of utility rates. Everyone knows that starting September 1, prices for housing and utility services across the country went up, including for heat energy (heating), right? Everyone! They know it in Moscow too:
http://rec.mos.ru/tarifs/tarify2012/ They know it in the Moscow Region too, specifically in the city of Khimki, where elections are coming up soon:
And in the rest of the country as well. Only in marvelous, fabulously wealthy Makhachkala have heat energy rates not only not been raised, but actually been lowered.
http://www.rstrd.ru/getfile.php?type=tariff&id=5
and here too, so no one thinks it's a typo:
It's hard to make sense of it.
Either we're dealing with a unique economic phenomenon, and in Makhachkala the ruble has negative inflation.
Or, thanks to cutting-edge management methods, production costs at "Dagestanenergo" and "Makhachkala Teploenergo" (80% of heat supplies to Makhachkala)) have dropped sharply.
Miracles, in short.
We won't even consider the possibility that inflation exists, production costs are rising, and yet the rest of Russia is paying for this celebration for the people of Makhachkala, because that would be extremism and an attempt to split Russia's unity, to the benefit of foreign intelligence services.
Go on, citizen, pay your bill.
Nbut at least don't forget to put up the leaflet:
http://er.mashina.org/