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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Effective Tuesday, Siberian Governor Aman Tuleyev resigned his office of 20 years after Kemerovo’s Winter Cherry Mall caught fire killing 64 individuals on March 25, 2018. The newly reelected Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted Tuleyev’s resignation Sunday in Moscow approximately 1,600 miles from Kemerovo.
The investigation is lead by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation which arrested seven individuals in connection with the fire including the woman responsible for the building inspections. Of the 64 dead were 41 children trapped in a movie theater with the exit doors locked. An additional 79 individuals were injured escaping the fast moving blaze. In compensation for their loss, families of the deceased received one-million rubles ($17,500 USD) issued by Tuleyev before his resignation.
According to Russian state run television (TASS), the security firm ‘Protection Center’ exceeded their legal abilities by undertaking fire control. The cause is still unknown with investigators looking at faulty wiring, children playing with lighters, and arson. Winter Cherry Mall is 248,000 sq ft (23,000 sq m) with a theater, trampoline area, bowling alley, and a 200 animal petting zoo all of which died in the fire.
Since the fire, demonstrations have occurred throughout Kemerovo with a population of approximately a half million citing widespread corruption on the local and national levels. Kemerovo is a coal city and acts as the administrative center for the Kemerovo Oblast. TASS has been suppressing political corruption and the demonstrations replacing them with stories about the heroics. Stories include the firefighters battling the blaze, cadet Dmitry Polukhin saving three children, and a local high school teacher Tatyana Darsaliya saving her daughters before re-entering to save more losing her life in the process.
The corruption allegations centered around the seven individuals arrested and the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. TASS nor international media reported Tuleyev was a focus of corruption demonstrations.