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Story summary
- In Russia, deteriorating public utilities are causing severe hardships similar to those faced in Ukraine during the ongoing conflict.
- Elderly women go to bed in winter coats as unlit streetlamps plunge cities into darkness.
- Local emergency services have set up heated tents to provide drinks and snacks.
- Activist Violetta Grudina, now in exile in Lithuania, describes Murmansk as feeling like a frontline city.
