Several thousand contracts for the purchase of firewood for heating state institutions – hospitals, educational institutions and police departments – appeared on the public procurement website. Polygon Media writes about this after analyzing public procurement data.
The Buryat Republican Industrial College purchased pine firewood for 498 thousand rubles. Contracts for the purchase of firewood were published by the Baikal College of Tourism and Service, the Totma Polytechnic College and the Vasilek Kindergarten in the Vologda Region. Contracts for the purchase of firewood and coal were signed by hospitals in the Kostroma and Irkutsk regions.
Firewood was stocked up by the Center for Supporting the Activities of the Russian Treasury in Novosibirsk and post offices in the Tyumen region. The contract for the supply of firewood was concluded by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Babushkinsky district in the Vologda region and the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Makarevsky" in the Kostroma region, the newspaper notes.
Russian state media have made dozens of stories in recent months about freezing Europeans and the energy crisis that awaits the West because of the sanctions imposed on Russia.
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" in mid-October, for example, published an article under the heading "Bloomberg: In Berlin's Tiergarten park, residents have cut down almost all the trees, and now they are interested in manure." It says that the energy crisis forced the Europeans to switch to heating houses with wood. Allegedly, in Berlin, against the backdrop of a fuel shortage, residents cut down almost all the trees in the Tiergarten central park for heating. And when there was nothing left to cut, they became interested in using horse manure as fuel.