Russia Fire Deaths

A fire that broke out on Russia's only nuclear-powered icebreaker and cargo ship was promptly extinguished, the Murmansk branch of the emergency ministry said late on Sunday.

A fire broke out on Friday in an unregistered home for the elderly in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 20 people, Tass news agency quoted emergency services as saying.

The death count has risen to 15 people, including 11 children, after a man opened fire Monday at his former school in central Russia, authorities said.

The editor of a Russian independent news site died on Friday after setting herself on fire following a police raid in a probe targeting an opposition group, her website confirmed.

Ukraine was under fire Thursday after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine that he was alive.

Turkish police have detained a man who fired shots in front of the US Embassy in Ankara, several hours after the Russian Ambassador to Turkey was killed in an attack.

A gunman in Turkey wearing a business suit and tie opened fire Monday on Russia's ambassador, killing the diplomat and wounding several others at photo exhibit in the Turkish capital, officials said. The gunman was killed as panicked people scattered for cover in the gallery.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow and raised issues of the killing of an Indian and the death of two Indian girl students in a fire tragedy in this country besides discussing key bilateral matters.

The death of two Indian girl students in a Russian medical college hostel fire and that of a medical student from Srinagar in a Russian city will figure External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's trip to Moscow on April 18.

Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa's police headquarters on Sunday, days after deadly clashes and a fire there killed dozens of their comrades in what Kiev charged was a Russian plot to "destroy Ukraine".

Emergency officials in Russia said on Thursday that wildfires have swept across southern Siberia, and destroying houses in several villages and endangering others. No deaths have been reported. The Emergency Situations Ministry said on Thursday that 59 fires were raging in the region east of Lake Baikal, thousands of kilometres east of Moscow.

More than 50 animals, including parrots, monkeys and chinchillas, have died in a circus firein Russia's second largest city of St Petersburg.The fire broke out yesterday when the exotic animals had been on display in an outbuilding close to the circus, a circus spokeswoman was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.Twenty-three parrots, 10 rabbits, six ch...

The death toll triggered by abnormal heat and dense smog caused by forest fires near the Russian capital has almost doubled to about 700 from the 360-380 deaths per day, a senior health official said on Monday."Usually, 360-380 deaths take place every day in Moscow, but these the rate has almost doubled to about 700," Chief of Moscow City Health De...

A fire that broke out on Russia's only nuclear-powered icebreaker and cargo ship was promptly extinguished, the Murmansk branch of the emergency ministry said late on Sunday.

A fire broke out on Friday in an unregistered home for the elderly in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 20 people, Tass news agency quoted emergency services as saying.

The death count has risen to 15 people, including 11 children, after a man opened fire Monday at his former school in central Russia, authorities said.

The editor of a Russian independent news site died on Friday after setting herself on fire following a police raid in a probe targeting an opposition group, her website confirmed.

Ukraine was under fire Thursday after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine that he was alive.

Turkish police have detained a man who fired shots in front of the US Embassy in Ankara, several hours after the Russian Ambassador to Turkey was killed in an attack.

A gunman in Turkey wearing a business suit and tie opened fire Monday on Russia's ambassador, killing the diplomat and wounding several others at photo exhibit in the Turkish capital, officials said. The gunman was killed as panicked people scattered for cover in the gallery.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow and raised issues of the killing of an Indian and the death of two Indian girl students in a fire tragedy in this country besides discussing key bilateral matters.

The death of two Indian girl students in a Russian medical college hostel fire and that of a medical student from Srinagar in a Russian city will figure External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's trip to Moscow on April 18.

Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa's police headquarters on Sunday, days after deadly clashes and a fire there killed dozens of their comrades in what Kiev charged was a Russian plot to "destroy Ukraine".

Emergency officials in Russia said on Thursday that wildfires have swept across southern Siberia, and destroying houses in several villages and endangering others. No deaths have been reported. The Emergency Situations Ministry said on Thursday that 59 fires were raging in the region east of Lake Baikal, thousands of kilometres east of Moscow.

More than 50 animals, including parrots, monkeys and chinchillas, have died in a circus firein Russia's second largest city of St Petersburg.The fire broke out yesterday when the exotic animals had been on display in an outbuilding close to the circus, a circus spokeswoman was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.Twenty-three parrots, 10 rabbits, six ch...

The death toll triggered by abnormal heat and dense smog caused by forest fires near the Russian capital has almost doubled to about 700 from the 360-380 deaths per day, a senior health official said on Monday."Usually, 360-380 deaths take place every day in Moscow, but these the rate has almost doubled to about 700," Chief of Moscow City Health De...