About the victims in Krymsk

I’m traveling from Stavropol to Pyatigorsk. Minibus. I’m sitting in front next to the driver. We started talking.

- Well, you, the press, don’t write the truth about Krymsk.
- Yes? Which one?
- Well, two thousand died there.
- How do you know?
- Yes, there was a soldier riding in your place. He told.

I’m trying to explain to the driver that after the flood in Krymsk I was there 15 times. And there is no evidence that the number of deaths is two thousand. Well, there is no such evidence!

Give me a photo, video. Give me at least a witness's story!
Driver: “There is evidence. The soldier told me."

Understand. The soldier said.

I’m coming to Pyatigorsk. Yard The boys are drinking beer. Twenty-five again:

- Yes, the press keeps lying about the number of victims. There are also mass graves in the cemetery.
-Who is lying? Am I lying? Give me a photo of the mass grave, we will now broadcast it from here to the whole world. “Novaya Gazeta”, Radio “Svoboda”. Right now, from this laptop. Give me a photo.
- Well, as if I don’t have one myself. But there was a guy in Krymsk, he saw, he had it.
- Yes? We will publish it immediately, in a minute. Here is my email. Let him send it here.
-Come on, I’ll call you right now, he’ll send it right away.

Time passes, but no one sends me anything by email.

That's it.

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