There are no carriages

St. Petersburg special forces cannot leave for Chechnya

The Oktyabrskaya Railway faced an acute shortage of carriages of all types. For this reason, it turned out to be impossible to withdraw from St. Petersburg both a shift of “special forces” for Chechnya and “Baltika” beer for the CIS countries.

On Tuesday, the St. Petersburg detachment of the Main Directorate of Execution of Punishments (GUIN) of the Ministry of Justice “Typhoon” was supposed to go to the North Caucasus to replace “Typhoon members” from other regions there. But now the duration of the latter’s business trip in Chechnya is being extended by at least several weeks. On the eve of the dispatch, the Ministry of Railways informed the GUIN that it did not have the required number of cars to transport the Typhoon from St. Petersburg. At the same time, railway workers refer to a government order ordering the mobilization of all rolling stock to deliver vacationers to warmer climes.

The Baltika brewing company was also left without carriages, this time freight ones. But for a completely different reason: the Ministry of Railways banned the delivery of rolling stock to CIS countries that have not repaid their debts to Russian railways. Therefore, yesterday Baltika was unable to ship beer to Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan and suffered significant losses.

Victor MATVEEV, St. Petersburg