Vladimir Putin flew to Kemerovo. The President of the Russian Federation visited the ashes of the "Winter Cherry" shopping center destroyed by the fire and laid flowers at the spontaneous memorial.

"What's going on here?" It's not fighting, not the methane emission at the mine, an unexpected. People came to rest, children. We're talking about demographics and losing so many people because of what? Because of criminal negligence, because of sloppiness, "Putin said..

The head of state instructed the chairman of the SCR, Alexander Bastrykin, to give a legal assessment of the actions of each official involved in the tragedy.

In the meantime, residents of the city staged a spontaneous rally. A crowd of 4,000 people came to the administration of the governor of the Kemerovo region. They demand the resignation of Aman Tuleyev. The head of the region did not dare to go out to the rally participants.

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