Three miners have been killed on Friday night in a methane explosion in the Zimovka coal mine in southwest Siberia’s Kemerovo Region.

A troop train carrying armaments for utilization caught fire in the Novosibirsk region, 10 wagons were destroyed by massive explosions.

Massive forest fires in the Tomsk region have reached its capital - on July 24 a couple of districts in the Tomsk suburbs caught fire.

Russia appears to be very "deluge-friendly" this week. Today, July 13, several streets in Central Moscow have been flooded.

14 Russian pilgrims were killed and 22 were seriously injured after a bus crush on the road between Chernigov and Kiev, Ukraine, the Emergencies Ministry said.

171 people were killed and 24,000 bore huge losses after devastating floods in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Monday.