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RusHydro representative asks to be listed as “guilty” [Russia]
[Original article in Russian; title translation, and following summary of the article's key points, provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]
RusHydro representative [Timur Khaziakhmetov], a member of the [Rostechnadzor] commission investigation into the Sayano-Shushenskaya station accident, admitted he bears responsibility [for the accident]...[The head of the commission Nikolay Kutjin] said Mr Khaziakhmetov is also on the list of people “responsible for preventing accidents at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric station”…“[O]ur work does not end with the findings of the technical reasons for the catastrophe, but we will continue to evaluate the technical conditions of the station...As a supervisory organ we'll be able to make recommendations in a few months" [Mr Kutjin said].