The MICEX exchange suspended trading for two hours today because traders were having trouble contacting the exchange.
Apparently the cause of the outage was a fire at and failure of a power station in Tula - sounds like something similar to what happened when a failure at a facility in Cleveland triggered the outages in New York two years ago.
It's possible that the fire and possible release of pollutants into the atmosphere that occurred last night at a large Moscow oil refinery was also related to this outage.
People in the city are very concerned, some are reacting with panic to the situation. Other events, perhaps not linked to the power outages, seem to be feeding that sense of concern. I've heard reports from colleagues of fires at the VDNKh (VVTs expo center) and at the Soviet Army Theater. In addition, looking outside, it appears that a big thunderstorm is also bearing down on the city.
Several of the websites that Muscovites check for news are still inaccessible, presumably due to being overloaded by news-hungry citizens.
No comments:
Post a Comment