‘No gas? I remember when food was rationed’: How Russian officials and propagandists are trying to reassure, shame, and intimidate Russians over the fuel crisis

According to Meduza, Russia has been struggling with a gasoline shortage since late May, one that started in isolated pockets and has since spread nationwide. Drivers are queuing in long lines at filling stations, hunting online for ways to brew their own fuel, and in some cases quietly siphoning gasoline from parked cars. Meduza reports that officials and state media are working several angles at once — reassuring the public that a fix is near, scolding people for so-called panic buying, and urging patience by invoking harder times the country has endured before.

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