WITH WIDELY CLOSED EYES

A fire broke out yeasterday - around 4 PM by Moscow - in the fourth floor of the Zimnaya Vishnya mall in Kemerovo, the Rusian Federation.  However, not a single Russian TV interupted its evening broadcast for a smallest report about the tragedy; in the evening TV news the reports the incident of burning mall and numerous children victims was almost unnoticed. On that evening the eponymous Russia's top TV channel broadcasted another film about the wise and kind Putin; the fire tragedy wasn't mentioned on the Solovyov's talk-show, although the information about about first dozens of victims had already appeared in media by the time the ether began. The ethers of other main channels were willed with entertainment shows and movies.

According to comments of locals and former employees of the Zimnaya Vishnya mall, it has never been checked for a fire hazard, there is a perception that it is arelated with the fact that the company, that is managing the mall, is owned by Nadezhda Suddenok, a local entrepreneur and a member of the ruling Yedinaya Rossiya party. Noticible, that fire inspections of the mall were not conducted because there are supervisory holidays in its attitude, this was reported by the chief state inspector for fire supervision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Rinat Enikeev. The Investigative Committee of Russia said that fire exits were blocked. This information is confirmed by video footage of eyewitnesses. Serious violations were committed both during the mall commissioning and in the process of its operation.

According to this morning data, the fire in the mall has taken 37 lives, 64 people have disappeared, including at least 26 children who found themselves blocked in a burning cinema room. 

In the afternoon session in the Kemerovo cinema was a group of 12-year-old schoolchildren from the village of Treschevsky, Kemerovo region. They arrived on an excursion to the children's center and a cinema in the mall on the occasion of the begining of school holidays. The children were accompanied by a class teacher and two parents, who have managed to get out of the burning building, because they did not watch the children's film, but went for a walk around the mall.

The doors to the cinema hall for some reason were closed from outside by the staff, and nobody came to open them when the fire broke out, The anto-fire system didn't triggered at all; the children were knocking the door and screaming but noone came. Now, the Russian media are full of heartbreaking stories - the children were phoning to relatives and wrote in social networks their farewell messages.

Neither of Russian inner propaganda broadcasters mentioned this last Sunday, as always, being busy glorifying the president and focusing of foreign problems... Indeed, who would want to hear about inner problems, negligence, etc, if there are are problems in Syria, Ukraine, terracts in Europe which warm the mysterious Russian soul.

...with compassion for the families.