Moscow asks Japan to speed up red tape for rescuers

In Moscow, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu has met with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia Masaharu Kono and asked him to speed up formalities needed to bring Russian rescue teams to Japan. Seventy-nine Russian rescuers are already searching for survivors in the city of Sendai, the worst-hit by the March 11 earthquake. Two more rescue teams […]