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An authorized opposition rally in St. Petersburg gathered together about 130 participants, police said on Sunday. The event, named White Nights, was held peacefully. Ahead of the rally a group of opposition activists attempted to stage an unauthorized campaign, but police prevented the move. Left Front movement leader Sergey Udaltsov and several other people including [...]

Thousands of residents in the Krasnodar Region in south Russia flocked to churches on Sunday to mourn the victims of devastating floods that killed at least 155 people. “The entire Kuban [the original name of the Krasnodar Region] is mourning for the people killed in the floods. The largest number of victims is in the [...]

The U.S. government has offered Russia assistance in eliminating the consequences of devastating floods that hit the southern Krasnodar Region and killed at least 150 people, the US embassy in Moscow said on its website on Sunday. “The United States government is saddened by the loss of life, injuries, and devastation that resulted from flooding [...]

President Vladimir Putin has declared July 9 a day of mourning in Russia for the victims of a bus crash in Ukraine and devastating floods in the southern Krasnodar Region that killed at least 164 Russian nationals, the Kremlin press office reported on Sunday. “Cultural organizations, and also state television channels, have been recommended to [...]

At least one man has been killed and six others got injured in an explosion that on Sunday rocked a gasoline station in Makhachkala, the Emergencies Ministry said. The Investigation Committee claims that seven people were wounded in the accident. “The blast rattled the gasoline station at bout 15 pm Moscow time. According to preliminary [...]

Residents of Krymsk, the city most severely devastated by floods that swept southern Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, will get new homes in 3-4 months, Governor Alexander Tkachov said on Sunday. Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed over 150 people after torrential rains began on Friday dropping more than 30 centimeters of [...]

Russian investigators have opened a criminal probe into mass deaths caused by devastating floods in the Krasnodar Territory in south Russia that killed at least 146 people, a local police source said on Sunday. “The probe was launched under part 3, article 109 of the Russian Criminal Code (the infliction of death by negligence),” the [...]

The death toll in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, hit by devastating floods, reached 150 people, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Previous reports said 146 people were killed in Russia’s worst in decades floods that affected several cities and residential areas in the Krasnodar region, including Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk as well as Krymsk, [...]

Two Russian Emergencies Ministry’s aircraft brought to Moscow 25 Russian pilgrims, who were injured in a bus crash in Ukraine on Saturday, a spokesman for the ministry said on Sunday. Fourteen people were killed after the bus carrying 43 pilgrims from Russia’s Pskov Region to Ukraine’s Pochayiv Lavra (large monastery) swerved off the road crashing [...]

As intensive relief operations continue in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, devastated by outrageous floods, the death toll keeps climbing having reached the number of 144 people by Sunday morning. Russia’s worst in decades floods ravaged this week several cities and residential areas in the Krasnodar Region, including Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk as well as Krymsk, a town [...]