About 38,000 hectares of the forest are on fire in the Russian Far East, Siberia and the Volga-Urals region.
Popularity: 7% [?]
May 8, 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.
Popularity: 3% [?]
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.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 12, 2006A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
Popularity: 17% [?]
December 4, 2006An elderly woman died after setting herself on fire in Russia’s St. Petersburg, news agencies reported.
The woman poured inflammable liquid all over herself and put it on fire. She received burns of 100 percent of skin and could not be saved.
Witnesses said the woman was behaving like a mentally ill person.
The incident took place in Yekaterininsky Prospect.
Popularity: 2% [?]
October 30, 2006
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