Moreover, local media channels reported that the fuel price boards were turned off along V. Putin’s motorcade route.
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The footage showing V. Putin going out to the children was published by propaganda journalist Pavel Zarubin. The video shows the Kremlin leader approaching the crowd and hugging a boy.
The video also shows at least two soldiers in camouflage uniforms standing by V. Putin’s car while he interacts with the children. The same soldiers accompanied him in June when he went out to people on the street in Kazan.
P. Zarubin clarified that the footage was filmed on the way to the airport.
Analysis conducted by “Agentstvo” shows that the video was filmed on Pervomayskaya Street in Novosibirsk. The video shows a nearby “Teboil” gas station with an empty price board.
Data from “Yandex” maps, “2GIS,” and “Google” maps indicate that this gas station is “temporarily closed.” It is unknown exactly when it was closed. The last review on “Yandex” maps was left on August 4. According to “2GIS,” it will reopen in October.
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Why the gas station was closed
It is unclear whether the closure of this gas station is related to the fuel crisis (a limit of 30 liters of gasoline or 60 liters of diesel per purchase is still in effect in the city) or to special measures taken in the city on the occasion of V. Putin’s visit. As the local portal NDN.Info wrote, the price boards were turned off at gas stations along the motorcade route where gasoline is the most expensive.
At the beginning of August, V. Putin visited the Krasnoyarsk Territory. At that time, gasoline prices suddenly dropped in the region on the occasion of his arrival. After the Kremlin leader left, they were raised again.
This is already the third time V. Putin has gone out to the people during the summer – previously he appeared on July 26 and June 17. V. Putin used to go out to the people with similar frequency during crisis moments: after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion, Alexei Navalny’s assassination, and the terrorist act at “Crocus City Hall.”
