How the power outage in Crimea affected Internet users

After 22 in November, unidentified persons blew up power transmission towers in the Kherson region of Ukraine, annexed by Russia to the Crimea left without light.

According to the Meduza portal, after the power outage, the number of views of Russian websites by Crimean Internet users fell sharply.

As Forum reported, activists in the Kherson region, among whom Crimean Tatars predominate, blocked repair work, seeking to fulfill a number of their requirements for the protection of human rights in Crimea.

As reported, 2 December to the peninsula, which is 70% dependent on Ukrainian electricity, started up electricity from Russia. The launch of the first line of the energy bridge from the Kuban, which will partially provide the peninsula with electricity, was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Now most areas, as local authorities say, receive energy at least 12 hours per day.

Crimea could gain energy independence with the help of the Crimean NPP, however this project was frozen after the accident at Chernobyl and the unfinished station was dismantled for scrap.

Due to damage to the lines in the Kherson region and the Crimea cut off from electricity in Ukraine, as reported to the BBC, excess energy has appeared, but it is not possible to “dump” it into deficit regions, since there are no power lines.

In the meantime, residents of the Crimea continue to face fan-shaped outages that do not happen on schedule.

Last week, the Chairman of the State Council of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, suggested calling newborn boys by generators. Because of the tendency to give names that correspond to the moment, girls on the peninsula are increasingly called Sveta.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised in the coming days to restore emergency power supply of the Crimea on one of four branches.