Fierce wildfires raging across Russia are a risk to the top-secret capital of its nuclear research industry, officials admitted last night. Two soldiers were killed yesterday fighting blazes dangerously close to the highly sensitive town of Sarov, despite claims in …
The 2010 Russian wildfires are a series of hundreds of wildfires that broke out across Russia, primarily in the west, from late July 2010 to present, due to record temperatures (hottest summer in Russian history) and drought in the region. …
Moscow: At least 12 people were killed in an earthquake jolting Russia’s North Caucasus region, media reported quoting the republic’s health minister Musa Akhmadov. More than 100 people have been hospitalised in Chechnya, Akhmadov said. Earlier, the agency quoted Chechen …
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A car exploded Friday, killing seven soldiers outside Russia’s military headquarters in South Ossetia, and Russian authorities charged it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended their war with Georgia. Georgia’s …
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — A jet carrying 88 people crashed early Sunday morning in western Russia, killing everyone on board, an airline spokesman said. Twenty-one foreigners were on the flight, including passport-holders from Azerbaijan, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Ukraine, …