Four Chinese workers were killed and five others injured Sunday in a fire that engulfed a wood factory in Russia's Far Eastern city of Zima.
The fire broke out in a makeshift wooden shelter which houses about 20 Chinese workers and spread to an area (...)
AlQa'dah 7, 1432, Oct 5, 2011, SPA -- There are no wildfires in forests and parks of Bratsk, but the emergency situation regime remains in the city and the region, Itar-Tass quoted the local branch of Russia's EMERCOM as saying today. "No new fires (...)
Scientists of the Limnology Institute of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have found oil mixtures in the bottom of Lake Baikal during dives of deepwater submersibles Mir-1 and Mir-2, the institute's director Academician Mikhail (...)
An earthquake measuring 4.9 points occurred in the south of the Irkutsk region. Its epicenter was located in the Lake Baikal water area 10 kilometers northeast of the Slyudyanka district centre, the regional department of the Russian Emergency (...)
Forty-five forest fires have started in the Irkutsk region in an area of 415 hectares in the first days of May. Taiga is on fire in 15 districts, the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
The (...)
