President Vladimir Putin has announced Jul 9 a day of anguish in Russia for a victims of a train pile-up in Ukraine and devastating floods in a southern Krasnodar Region that killed during slightest 164 Russian nationals, a Kremlin press bureau reported on Sunday.
“Cultural organizations, and also state radio channels, have been endorsed to refrain from demonstrating party programs,” a press bureau pronounced in a statement.
Under a presidential decree, state flags in Russia and in a abroad missions will be flown half-mast on Jul 9 overdue to a Day of Mourning.
Russia’s misfortune in decades floods, triggered by complicated rainfalls, scorched several cities and residential areas in a southern Krasnodar Region on Friday night, murdering during slightest 150 people. Over 5,000 homes were flooded in a segment as a outcome of a disaster.
The floods have disrupted power, gas and H2O supply lines, vehicle and rail communication. Unconfirmed reports contend a floods killed 155 people.
In another accident, fourteen people were killed after a train carrying 43 pilgrims from Russia’s Pskov Region to Ukraine’s Pochayiv Lavra (large monastery) in a Chernigov range in northern Ukraine swerved off a highway on Saturday and crashed into a ditch.