Who cares about a house without a roof, is awaited by a window with bars?

      However, some interlocutors — close to the Investigative Committee and the "gray house" — presumably informed the editorial office that if the case was not initiated against Alexander Sokolov, then the governor "will also have to answer for the negligent attitude" towards the population of the region. In particular, towards the residents of 18 apartments, where three-quarters are pensioners who were obliged to repair the roof at their own expense.

      Indeed, the Publishing House treated the information from its sources with skepticism, as it only had two "refusal documents for assistance to people," which featured the signatures of the head of the Kirovo-Chepetsk district Lyubov Peshnina and the deputy chairman of the Government Alexey Petryakov.

      Moreover, Peshnina explained that she did not intend to declare an emergency: the hurricane was not of that strength, and the time had already passed, and in the Reserve Fund, which is not her fault, there was hardly anything left. However, Petryakov found a good dozen reasons to refuse assistance to the residents of the house on Oktyabrskaya Street, simultaneously accusing Peshnina of not providing the necessary documents and "washing" the "Capital Repair Fund" from financial costs. Probably for greater persuasiveness, the government notification does not mention the words "hurricane" and "natural disaster" even once, but only "strong wind," which tore off the roof and tossed it like a sheet of paper almost fifty meters away.

      "I saw with my own eyes the cone of the vortex — wide, terrifying, rising high into the sky. I saw how the crowns of the birches were stuck in the ground, and then the ground was covered by a white, milk-like mist. How the house jumped, how we were shaken as if in an earthquake... I was asked: why didn't you film the tornado on your phone? Because I was holding the window with both hands to prevent it from crashing into the apartment," recalls Sergey — one of the residents of the house — the horror of that morning.

      However, most likely, the primary reason for the "criminal activation" of the local agency was a complaint sent on August 15 to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Tsaryuk.

      As stated in the appeal, the house in Shutovshchina is not new (built in 1984 under the "southern project," cracks in the foundation and seams were found during an inspection in 1992, and the outer panels were frozen), but the roof was repaired in 2010, so it was destroyed not due to its physical wear but because of a dangerous natural phenomenon.

      "I believe," writes the deputy, "that as a result of the natural disaster, which led to a violation of the living conditions of people, funds for eliminating the consequences of the natural disaster should be allocated from the Reserve Fund of the Kirov region. But the district and regional leadership simply ignores the emergency situation."

      As reported by a security source on Monday, August 24, a suspect will soon appear in the criminal case "on the fact," and the head of the district will likely be held accountable "for failing to provide assistance." Although it can be assumed that Lyubov Peshnina was inactive, probably not without instructions from "above."