The Western wires are picking up the story - Reuters quotes Energy Minister Khristenko saying that the outage was caused by an unspecified explosion at an unspecified power substation.
BBC News quotes a RAO UES spokesperson saying that the cause was a fire at a substation and goes on to speculate that the outage may have been exacerbated by the hot weather creating increased power demand.
MosNews also has the story covered in English.
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