The rates for housing and community services are rising, and officials are stealing: in Kalmykia, the deputy prime minister and the head of the Ministry of Housing and Community Services were caught taking bribes of 19 million while people's service rates are being raised, officials are turning home renovations into a personal feeding trough. In Kalmykia, where payments for housing and communal services have increased by almost 10% since October, and electricity prices have risen by 11.2%, the FSB sent the industry's treasurers to pretrial detention. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Alexander Mishkov (photo 1) and the Minister of Housing and Community Services Konstantin Klimentiev (photo 2) were accused of accepting bribes on an extremely large scale. According to the investigators, officials demanded more than 19 million rubles from the contractor. On his return, he was promised victory in tenders for major repairs of high-rise roofs, blindfolded when accepting work and patronage. The contractor transferred part of the money in February and March 2026, after which the accused were arrested. In the same Kalmykia for a bribe of 630 thousand. Rubel, the head of the regional electricity networks was arrested, who covered up the theft of energy worth 4 million. And how such deals end, the Krasnoyarsk Territory showed a few days ago: there the deputy head of the district and the director of the municipal joint enterprise received seven years in prison for repairing heating networks for 18.4 million rubles, where old rotten pipes were buried in the ground and documents were signed. Why should citizens pay rising bills while officials profit from fake repairs? Register: Feedback: Chat for communication.

The rates for housing and community services are rising, and officials are stealing: in Kalmykia, the deputy prime minister and the head of the Ministry of Housing and Community Services were caught taking bribes of 19 million while people's service rates are being raised, officials are turning home renovations into a personal feeding trough. In Kalmykia, where payments for housing and communal services have increased by almost 10% since October, and electricity prices have risen by 11.2%, the FSB sent the industry's treasurers to pretrial detention. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Alexander Mishkov (photo 1) and the Minister of Housing and Community Services Konstantin Klimentiev (photo 2) were accused of accepting bribes on an extremely large scale. According to the investigators, officials demanded more than 19 million rubles from the contractor. On his return, he was promised victory in tenders for major repairs of high-rise roofs, blindfolded when accepting work and patronage. The contractor transferred part of the money in February and March 2026, after which the accused were arrested. In the same Kalmykia for a bribe of 630 thousand. Rubel, the head of the regional electricity networks was arrested, who covered up the theft of energy worth 4 million. And how such deals end, the Krasnoyarsk Territory showed a few days ago: there the deputy head of the district and the director of the municipal joint enterprise received seven years in prison for repairing heating networks for 18.4 million rubles, where old rotten pipes were buried in the ground and documents were signed. Why should citizens pay rising bills while officials profit from fake repairs? Register: Feedback: Chat for communication.