In the first place, most of the rise in GDP simply reflects the increase in world oil prices, and is not linked to increases in production. In the Ostankino television tower, new electronic equipment had been continually fastened onto the increasingly decrepit equipment. The result was that its wiring could not carry the excessive current. I predicted that Russia would face technological catastrophes. Unfortunately, the prediction is being fulfilled.
Complex technology is about to start going berserk on a massive scale.
If, that is, the process has not already begun. The Ostankino fire revealed that Russia did not have the means of extinguishing a blaze at a great height. The power ministries and the fire service, after conferring for many hours, proved to be incapable of putting out the fire. With the highest television tower in Europe being completely burned out, residents of Moscow and Moscow province were left without television. Numerous pager companies could no longer operate.