Russia's federal budget deficit could exceed 4 percent of gross domestic product if oil prices stay at their current level, Reuters cited Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Oreshkin as saying on Friday.
Oreshkin added that Russia could increase its (...)
Six children have died in a fire in the Krasnoyarsk territory yesterday evening. They include an 18-month-old girl and four boys aged two, four, six and seven. The age and identity of the sixth child is being established, a duty officer for the (...)
Two people were killed and another three people were injured in the collapse of a metallic beam at the Achinsk oil refinery in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the Krasnoyarsk territorial emergency situation department told Itar-Tass (...)
AlHijjah 26, 1433, Nov 11, 2012, SPA -- Three children - two boys and one girl between one and four years of age - died in a house on fire in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1433, Oct 26, 2012, SPA -- The fire at a warehouse with flammable materials -matches and lighters- in Abakan, Khakassia, has been extinguished.
No casualties have been reported. The fire started at 08:12 local time (04:12 Moscow time) (...)
A total of 160 forest fires are blazing on the area of over 19,000 hectares, the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"The fires are blazing on the area of forestry fund. There is no threat to spreading the fire to (...)
An emergency situation regime has been announced in eight districts of the Krasnoyarsk territory over wildfires, the Federal Forest Agency reported on Sunday.
There are 65 wildfires on the area of 8,950 hectares now, the territorial forest (...)
The areas of forest fires enlarged by 648 hectares in Siberia over the past 24 hours to 2,792 hectares.
There are four large fires on 1,870 hectares in the Republic of Tuva and the Trans-Baikal Territory, the press service of the Russian (...)
The wildfire area in Siberia grew by 2.7 times over the past day. As of 9:00 a.m. Moscow time 30 fires were raging on 2,144 hectares, including four large fires of 1,590 hectares, the Siberian regional center of the Emergency Situations Ministry (...)
Thirteen wildfires spreading over the territory of 153.5 hectares are registered in Siberia's three regions - the Trans-Baikal region, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Buryatia, the press service of the Siberian emergencies department (...)
Seven forest fires on a total of 1,171 hectares were put out in Siberia over the past day. However, 29 fires keep burning on 3,741 hectares by Monday morning. Thirteen fires on 917 hectares were localized.
The largest number of fires and the (...)
The overall wildfire area in Siberian regions has been reduced by 553 hectares, a spokesman for the Siberian regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass on Friday.
According to the spokesman, as many as 15 wildfires on an overall area of 1,925 (...)
Wildfire areas enlarged three times in Siberia over the past 24 hours.
Twenty nine outbreaks on a total area of 3,075 hectares were reported there on Tuesday morning. Seven of the outbreaks on 950.5 hectares are localized, the press service of the (...)
The number of wildfires in Siberia increased to 68 seats; flames engulfed 16,156 hectares. Out of the total, 18 fires over an area of 933.5 ha have been localized, Itar-Tass learnt this morning from the press service of the Siberian regional centre (...)
AlQa'dah 19, 1432, Oct 17, 2011, SPA -- Nine people have been killed in a fire in a private house in the Nizhnyaya Poima settlement the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Situations Ministry's (EMERCOM) department (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA -- Autumn wildfires continue leaping to new areas in Siberia. The area, engulfed in flames, increased by 258 hectares over the past 24 hours, totaling 2,368 ha by this morning.
Rescuers managed to localize 19 (...)
AlQa'dah 4, 1432, Oct 2, 2011, SPA -- The area of wildfires increased by 212.7 hectares in Siberia over the past 24 hours. There are now 24 seats of fire over 565.2 hectares. Out of the total, 17 seats of flames were localized over 502.2 hectares, (...)
The wildfire area in Russia's Siberian regions has halved in the past twenty-four hours, a spokesman for the Siberian regional emergencies administration told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, there were nine fires on an overall (...)
The wildfire area in Russia's Siberian regions has reached 290.2 hectares in the past twenty-four hours, the spokeswoman for the Siberian regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
According to Olesya Yenina, nineteen wild fires were (...)
The firemen have put out 18 fires on 1,017 hectares in Siberia's forests over the past day. However, another 22 forest fires on 1,013 hectares keep burning, a source in the regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The hardest fire (...)
The area of wildfires in Siberia enlarged by more than 1,000 hectares over the past 24 hours. There were 55 outbreaks on a total area of 2,556 ha on Saturday morning. Twelve of the fires have been localized on 415 ha. There is no threat of blaze (...)
The cockpit of a private helicopter, which crashed near Krasnoyarsk on Sunday, was found 200 meters away from the presumed crash scene.
The strong current in the Yenisei River carried the chopper downstream, the commander of a Mil Mi-8 rescue (...)
The firemen succeeded to put out 21 fires in Siberia over the past day. Some 160 fires are raging on 17,515 hectares on Thursday. Some 53 fires were localized on 6,728 hectares, a source in the regional emergencies center told Itar-Tass on (...)
The area consumed by wildfire in Russia's Siberian regions has decreased more than two-fold over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
According to the spokesman, the fire area reduced by (...)
The area of forest fires in Siberia almost doubled over the past day. On Friday morning, there were 26 outbreaks on 250.7 hectares, by Saturday morning, the number rose to 37, and the area enlarged to 486 hectares.
Nine of the outbreaks on 123.5 (...)