Georgian military police captured objects of Russian military base at Gonio training ground in Batumi suburbs. This was informed by commander of Russian troops in Transcaucasia, major-general Andrei Popov. By his words, capture was carried out by 25 armed military policemen of Batumi garrison.
On Saturday morning an explosion of domestic gas took place in 9-storied apartment house in Yekaterinburg, informed regional Emergency Ministry.
Deputy of State Duma Nikolai Bortsov has got into traffic accident in Lipetsk oblast.
Administration of Russian Savings bank and Emergency Ministry lay the blame on each other for large number of victims in fire, which occurred on January 16 in Vladivostok bank branch.
Air communication of Kamchatka with continent has been resumed after 3 day service interruption because of cyclone.
The commander of Russian air force military-transport aviation lieutenant-general Victor Denisov declared the information about missing of four aircrafts AN-124 `Ruslan` to be contrary to fact.
Power supply into the houses of near Moscow settlement Tomilino has been resumed.
2 people have died and 15 people have been injured as a result of blast in tenement house in Gus-Khrustany town in Vladimir region, informs Russian Emergency Ministry. `Presumably in the basement of house 8, Luxembergskaya street the blast of natural gas occured` , said the ministry representative.
In the course of inspection in one of aviation units, dislocated on military aerodrome `Seshcha` in Bryansk region, four transport planes AN-124 `Ruslan` disappearance has been discovered.
Pavlovsky district of Nizhny Novgorod region Prosecutor`s Office has brought a charge against Constantine Grodchannikov, the driver of the minibus `Gazel`, sank in the Oka river on January 17. The charge has been brought on the article 264 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code (`Rules of the road violation, which brought to death of two and more people`). According to Criminal Code, 7 years of imprisonment threatens to the accused.
Five people died in the accident at railroad crossing in Vyborg district, Leningrad region. The accident occurred at 3 p.m. at railway crossing Sveklovichnoye, informed the press-service of Russian Emergency Ministry Chief administration in Leningrad region.
The inhabitants of Tomilino settlement in Lyubertsi district in near Moscow region still complain of cold houses. Meanwhile, authorities declare, that the boiler-house and heating system breakout has been liquidated.
At crossing the Yenisei river a passenger bus broke the ice, which was caused by two heavy tracks, having crossed the river. According to preliminary data, not long before the bus, two supersize `Kamazes` with trailers passed the river crossing, the ice under them cracked.
In the last 24 hours frost has caused several emergencies in Moscow region. According the information received from Russian Emergency Ministry, heating systems breakdowns are detected in Mytishchi, Solnechnogorsk, Yegorievsk and Lyubertsi districts. Situation in Tomilino settlement in Lyubertsi district has required establishment of emergency state status. Authorities assume that in case of two more days without heating people evacuation will be necessary.
3 rebels, including leader of bandit group subordinate to Shamil Basaev and Doka Umarov, were detained in the suburbs of Nazran.
Parting ceremony with victims of fire in large Vladivostok office center has started in Littoral regional theatre named after Gorky.
Powerful snow cyclone, formed near Sakhalin shore, rages in Kamchatka for third day.
Russia will have to open strategic fuel stocks due to abnormally hard frosts. This decision has been prepared and will be put forward to Mikhail Fradkov - the Russian prime-minister.
Search of 2 drowned passengers of "Gazel" minibus, which broke through ice in Oka river on January 17, will be resumed on Thursday near Pavlovo town of Nizhegorodskaya oblast.
Several thousands of Veliky Novgorod citizens stayed without heating during severe frost on Wednesday.
In near Moscow Orekhovo-Zuevo a crack has appeared in an automobile bridge accross the river Klyazma construction. According to the words of the Moscow region vice governor, the regional emergency commission chairman Aleksei Panteleyev, the damaged construction is being examined by specialists of near Moscow Chief emergency and fire safety administration.
"This is 75 year old Vilia Polovitsky - the oldest of the victims", informed the press-secretary of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar Timur Kireyev.
Over a hundred Russian tourists from Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo cannot return home from Philippines resourts. Tomsk region administration official said, that a tourist company "Serp and K" from Novosibirsk had declared its bankruptcy, having paid to PhilippinÕ partners one third of agreed sum.
Prosecutor`s Office of Pavlovo district filed a criminal suit on the fact of death of six people in a minibus "Gazel", sank under the Oka river ice. At the time being the question of arraignment against the minibus driver is being considered, informed the regional Administration of Internal Affairs press-service.
Office of Public Prosecutor of Littoral krai accused senior inspector of Gospozharnadzor Aleksey Lobanov, who checked the office building where 9 people died in fire on January 16, of negligence.