Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, Minister of Energy Sergei Shmatko and IDGC Holding’s Director General Nikolai Shvets
Prime Minister Putin was informed by Mr Gromov, Mr Shmatko and Mr Shvets that electricity had been fully restored in Moscow Region communities. However, new outages occurred in the night on New Year’s day, but electricity there “is being restored on schedule,” according to IDGC Holding’s director general. During the meeting, the prime minister spoke with Nizhny Novgorod Governor Valery Shantsev on the phone regarding outages in some locations in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.