Under Financial Squeeze, Fire-ravaged Russian Mall Cut Costs

The company behind a Russian shopping mall where a fire recently killed 64 people, most of them children, had sought to slash costs amid financial losses according to interviews with former employees, their relatives, and owners of retail space in the mall. Investigators also say the company appears to have cut corners on construction that may have contributed to the loss of life. The mall's management company, Kemerovskiy Konditerskiy Kombinat, or KKK, replaced long-serving...

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