Putin was not late for work due to snowfall – Kommersant

President Vladimir Putin arrived at work in the Kremlin before the snowfall began, said his press secretary Dmitry Peskov. He himself said that getting to work “like everyone else is not easy,” but the Kremlin representative believes that “winter comes every year, and it snows every year,” so today “nothing unusual happened.”

“The President got to work, as far as I know, even before the snow began… In my opinion, before everything completely collapsed. Therefore, it’s probably not as hard as other Muscovites, who did it in the morning when it was covered in snow,” Mr. Peskov said during a press call.

The Kremlin representative clarified that Vladimir Putin’s trip to the weather-affected areas in the south of the country is not yet required. “Thank God, such disasters as you mentioned, which required an immediate response by the entire country, did not happen to us… But you know that the president is always ready,” Dmitry Peskov assured.

In Moscow and Moscow region recorded snow and strong wind. Governor of the region Andrey Vorobyov statedthat the region is experiencing the heaviest snowfall in 40 years. Mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin too saidthat the city has “record snowfalls these days.”

Bad weather is also observed in Crimea, where as a result of the storm died one man. In Sevastopol in the aquarium died 800 tropical animals. In the Krasnodar region the wind knocked down more than 200 trees, there are victims. About 100 thousand people in Dagestan due to wind left without light.

Laura Keffer