The Ones to Blame

The scapegoats for the devastating flooding earlier this month in the southern Russian city of Krymsk have been singled out by the authorities. And they are, as it happens, the authorities themselves: three regional officials have been sacked and arrested on charges of official negligence. Yet even though the Kremlin has found someone to blame, the move is unlikely to quell any of the discontent over the official mismanagement of the crisis, experts say.