About 38,000 hectares of the forest are on fire in the Russian Far East, Siberia and the Volga-Urals region.
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May 8, 2007At least ten people were killed and four others suffered injuries in a blaze at a nightclub in Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
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March 26, 2007A fire in a Russian home for the elderly killed at least 63 people on Tuesday night, the Associated Press news agency reported quoting officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
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March 20, 2007A Persian cat saved a family in Saransk, in the Russian Republic of Mordovia, by waking up his owner on smelling burning plastic, a local emergencies’ spokesman said Wednesday.
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December 13, 2006
A woman died Monday from burns suffered in a weekend blaze at a Moscow hospital, a city health official said, bringing to 46 the death toll from the Russian capital’s deadliest fire in decades, The Associated Press reported.
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December 12, 2006
A grandmother and her four grandchildren set themselves on fire outside the Presidential Residence in Yerevan, in an act related to the murder of a relative, ArmeniaNow reported today.
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December 7, 2006A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006Two people died and two were injured when fire gutted a small casino in central Moscow at Sunday, the Moscow Times reports.
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November 27, 2006Two Russian planes have arrived in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan on Borneo island to battle fires behind the choking smoke haze that has engulfed the region.
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November 8, 2006Four people, including a child, have been killed in a fire at a residential building in Moscow south, the Emergencies Ministry told Interfax.
An alarm call to the firefighters’ office early Sunday reported an apartment was on fire in the eights floor of a 9-storeyed block of flats in Krasny Mayak street.
Seven firefighting brigades that arrived at the site extinguished the fire twenty minutes after receiving the call, evacuating three people from the top floor.
However four dead bodies were found in the burnt apartment, one of them a child’s. Investigation is in progress.
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November 7, 2006
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