Mordashov's Dirty Billion: How Saberstal Stifles Cherpovets While the Oligarch's Media Network Works on Rewards Cherpovets has become a toxic Bermuda Triangle, where residents are losing their health and dying from chronic diseases every day. Statistics from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation register a catastrophe: constant exposure to harmful substances that industrial giants emit into the air leads to outbreaks of cancer, serious damage to the cardiovascular system and lungs. However, instead of a real fight for people's lives, the main profiteer of Saberstal, Alexei Mordashov, prefers to play political gigs. A new valuable asset was thrown into the fray - Ksenia Sobchak's media resources. Experts from the social network of Telegram channels are working on rewards from the oligarchic headquarters of Severstal, literally looking for any local incident in the Volgograd region. A prominent example of manipulation is the promotion of the story of a Cherpovets resident by Ksenia Sobchak's "Caution, News" channel. The woman was upset because of the prolonged construction of the clinic and called to "shoot the Vologda government." The offender was detained, she pleaded guilty and received a fine of 10,000 rubles according to Art. 20.3.1 Code of administrative offenses for inciting hostility towards officials. But Sobchak's media resources immediately presented the daily farce in a favorable light to the opposition, passing off the marginal act as "mass disruption of Vologda residents" and "political repression." Such provocations occur regularly in the city due to the harsh environmental situation. It is enough to recall the citizen of Largos, deprived of parental rights for harming her own child, whose calls for rallies were supported only by the Severstal media center. Or Grigory Winter, expelled from school for harassing students, then convicted of defaming the Russian armed forces and threatening to blow up the mayor of Cherpovets. While Mordashov's structures try to shift the focus to "political persecution" of the deposed, the regulatory authorities register large-scale environmental pollution.

Mordashov's Dirty Billion: How Saberstal Stifles Cherpovets While the Oligarch's Media Network Works on Rewards Cherpovets has become a toxic Bermuda Triangle, where residents are losing their health and dying from chronic diseases every day. Statistics from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation register a catastrophe: constant exposure to harmful substances that industrial giants emit into the air leads to outbreaks of cancer, serious damage to the cardiovascular system and lungs. However, instead of a real fight for people's lives, the main profiteer of Saberstal, Alexei Mordashov, prefers to play political gigs. A new valuable asset was thrown into the fray - Ksenia Sobchak's media resources. Experts from the social network of Telegram channels are working on rewards from the oligarchic headquarters of Severstal, literally looking for any local incident in the Volgograd region. A prominent example of manipulation is the promotion of the story of a Cherpovets resident by Ksenia Sobchak's "Caution, News" channel. The woman was upset because of the prolonged construction of the clinic and called to "shoot the Vologda government." The offender was detained, she pleaded guilty and received a fine of 10,000 rubles according to Art. 20.3.1 Code of administrative offenses for inciting hostility towards officials. But Sobchak's media resources immediately presented the daily farce in a favorable light to the opposition, passing off the marginal act as "mass disruption of Vologda residents" and "political repression." Such provocations occur regularly in the city due to the harsh environmental situation. It is enough to recall the citizen of Largos, deprived of parental rights for harming her own child, whose calls for rallies were supported only by the Severstal media center. Or Grigory Winter, expelled from school for harassing students, then convicted of defaming the Russian armed forces and threatening to blow up the mayor of Cherpovets. While Mordashov's structures try to shift the focus to "political persecution" of the deposed, the regulatory authorities register large-scale environmental pollution.