June 2 about 23:30 MSK at the military unit in Udmurtia Republic near the village of Pugachevo an explosion occurred, which led to the detonation of ammunition. More than 28 thousand people were evacuated from nearby settlements. Real hell on earth.

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Tags: explosion · Udmurt republic

Polish president plane Tu-154 en route from Warsaw to Smolensk on Saturday crashed during landing in Smolensk Oblast killing all 132 passengers on board, including President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife.

The airplane was landing in heavy fog. The government of Smolensk region said that nobody survived the plane crash. They clarified that during the landing approach Tu-154 touched the treetops and hit the ground, and then split up and caught fire. Kaczynski was flying today in Smolensk, to visit the memorial “Katyn”. Today there are ceremonies in regard to the 70th anniversary of the massacre of Polish officers.

Polish President plane Tu-154 crash near Russia Smolensk airport (Crash place video)

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Tags: Lech Kaczynski · plane crash · Polish President · smolensk · smolensk oblast

“According to preliminary information, there were 18 German tourists and flight crew on board of the MI-8,” a spokesman for the Far East Emergencies Ministry Sergei Viktorov said.

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Tags: crash · helicopter · kamchatka · Kamchatka krai · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Russia is known as an important exporter of oil, so there are a lot of oil industry infrastructure objects all over the country, sometimes something goes wrong and…

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Tags: explosion · oil reservoir

Two attacks were carried out by suicide bombers this morning in the Moscow subway. Explosions with a time period of 40 minutes happened at the stations “Lubyanka” and “Park Kultury” of Sokolniki subway line. As a result of terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway 36 people (38 with suicide bombers) were killed, an additional 92 people were injured.

The attacks were carried out in rush hour, when most people rode to work. The assessments of explosive devices power ranges from 300-400g of TNT equivalent to 3 kg. In connection with the accidents Moscow City Council advises the people if possible to refrain from trips to the center of the city.

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Tags: metro · Moscow city · subway · terrorism

The following accident took place on one of the crossroads of Krasnoyarsk city of Russia, 9 cars were damaged, 5 people injured.

Tags: crash · Krasnoyarsk city · tower crane

Several days ago the people living in Stavropol krai (region) of Russia were very surprised and frightened by the strange purple snow. Here is the short video report.

Tags: purple snow · Stavropol krai

Among the other problems of Russia is the problem of depreciation of infrastructure systems of cities and towns. For example during the December of 2009 there were numerous accidents on heating mains of various Russian cities like the following one captured by Pavel Iyevlev in Saint Petersburg city.

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Tags: heating main · Saint Petersburg city

The following video was captured at the beginning of conflagration happened at Perm city nightclub “Lame Horse” tonight. At least 109 people were killed and 140 were injured mostly because of smoke inhalation and panic. According to officials the fireworks blast caused the fire. The 7th of December, 2009 is declared a day of mourning in Russia.

Tags: fire · nightclub · Perm city

Another problem of Russia, sometimes called the greatest, low quality and quantity of modern roads and highways. Here is the video of an accident happened on typical narrow Russian road between regions capitals (the one on the video is Ryazan oblast road).

Tags: Russian road · Ryazan oblast