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. …
Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed residents. “The bed shook for about 20 seconds,” Helsingborg resident John O’Leary told The Local. O’Leary …
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 …
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 60 people, emergency officials said Monday. The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hit the …