Cleanup Starts After Arms Depot Fire

The Defense Ministry’s top weapons official clung to his job Monday as de-mining specialists swept the grounds of an Urals arms depot ravaged by a weekend fire, dodging the occasional blast from still smoldering artillery. Alexander Romanovsky, who heads the ministry’s Main Artillery Directorate, faces dismissal for the three-day fire in the Udmurtia republic and a similar blaze in Bashkortostan two weeks earlier, Itar-Tass reported, citing an unidentified […]