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The Russian Knights formation aerobatics team will not take part in the Farnborough International Air Show due to a lack of permits for taking military equipment out of the country, the organizers of the airshow said. “Unfortunately the two Russian Knights’ Su-27s scheduled to appear at the Farnborough International Airshow 2012 will now not be [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Russia’s southern town of Krymsk, the most severely affected by floods that hit Krasnodar region on Saturday killing over 130 people overnight. Putin who has just held an urgent meeting with the representatives of the all services involved in search operation and tackling the consequences of the disaster, left [...]

The death toll in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, hit by disastrous floods, keeps rising and has reached the number of 141 people, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Earlier reports said that 130 people were killed in Russia’s worst in decades floods that affected several cities and residential areas in Krasnodar region, [...]

The death toll from massive flooding in the Krasnodar Region in Russia’s south caused by heavy rains has risen to 78, police said on Saturday. The death toll continues to rise with the discovery of new bodies. Governor Aleksandr Tkachyov claims there hasn’t been anything like it for the past 70 years. Most heavily affected [...]

A three-day mourning will be declared in Central Russia’s Pskov region starting July 9 after a bus carrying Russian pilgrims crashed in Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least fourteen and injuring 22 people, regional administration reported.   “The state flags will be dipped and all the entertaining events and TV programs will be cancelled on [...]

Residents of the southern Russia’s city of Krymsk, the most affected by Saturday’s severe floods, blamed authorities for opening reservoirs what as they say could have caused a sudden wave of water that had swept the city. “Reservoirs in Krymsk have been opened at night. No one had warned the people about it. A half [...]

Residents of the southern Russia’s city of Krymsk, the most affected by Saturday’s severe floods, blamed authorities for opening reservoirs what as they say could have caused a sudden wave of water that had swept the city.

A bus carrying Russian pilgrims on early Saturday crashed on the road between Chernigov and Kiev killing at least fourteen and injuring 22 people, the Emergencies Ministry said. The bus was carrying 45 passengers from Central Russia’s Pskov Region to the Ukraine’s Pochayiv Lavra (large monastery). According to preliminary data, the driver lost control of [...]

At least 53 people have perished in heavy downpours that caused flooding across the South Russian Krasnodar Territory, the Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday. Earlier reports put the death toll at ten people. Most heavily affected is the city of Gelendzhik where five people received electric shock and died after a transformer fell on the [...]

A Cambodia-flagged cruise ship is in distress in the Sea of Japan, a rescue coordination official said on Saturday. The Star ship with 16 Russian crew members on board started taking on water in the early hours of Saturday, when it was some 90 miles off the port of Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East. The [...]

A future global arms trade treaty should outline general principles for preventing illegal arms trade and should leave it up to national governments to decide on particular ways of their implementation, a senior Russian diplomat said during a United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty under way in New York. “The document should establish [...]