The Crisis: Electricity Providers Face Bankruptcy
Electricity suppliers across the country are cracking down as the number of delinquent private and corporate customers surges, as the dilapidated industry is mired in debt linked to unpaid consumer bills and the multibillion-dollar investment programs that investors signed onto during the privatization of Unified Energy System, which wrapped up just weeks before the financial crisis struck.

Friday, November 21, 2008 Updated at 20 November 2008 23:22 Moscow Time

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Chris Floyd's Global Eye has appeared weekly in The Moscow Times for over seven years, offering a sharp and acerbic take on the world scene. Mixing a slash-and-burn wit with solid research, the column plumbs the depths of political calumny, public hypocrisy, cultural cant and human folly of every stripe. In a world engulfed by spin, PR, self-serving blather and heavy propaganda, the Global Eye cuts through the fog with a searing light and a jaunty style that entertains even as it informs, inspires ­- or enrages.

Chris Floyd is an American journalist whose work has taken him from Moscow to Mississippi, from moonshine raids in the Tennessee hills to the rarefied jungles of Oxford University. He has won numerous awards for his reporting on government, crime, and politics in the United States. On the other side of the Atlantic, he has edited an Oxford journal on science and religion, publishing articles by Nobel-wining scientists, Establishment figures like Prince Charles, and some of England's leading radical voices, such as George Monbiot and Richard Dawkins. His printed work has appeared in more than 80 countries around the world, in lands as diverse as India, Pakistan, Iran, Mexico, and Japan ,and throughout Western and Eastern Europe.

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