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Water levels are still rising as local authorities declare a state of emergency in the region.

The city's mayor urged many residents to leave home, as sirens sounded.

MOSCOW — Floods in the Russian city of Orenburg have raised water levels to two meters above critical, leaving just the roofs of some houses showing.The city's mayor urged many residents to leave...

MOSCOW—Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The floods sparked evacuations of thousands in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles), southeast of the capital of Moscow…

Floods in the Russian city of Orenburg have raised water levels to two metres above critical, leaving just the roofs of some houses showing.

Russia said on Thursday that unprecedented flooding had created "difficult" conditions and another major river had burst its banks, submerging roads and villages in the Siberian region of Tomsk.Three villages in the Tomsk region -- 3,000 kilometres (1,850 miles) east of Moscow -- were cut off from the regional capital when rising waters in the river Tom flooded roads, villages and several houses, state media cited local officials as saying.

ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg. The deluge of meltwater overwhelmed scores of settlements in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia, Volga and areas of Kazakhstan after major rivers such as the Ural, which flows into the Caspian, rose more 70 cm (2 feet 3 inches) beyond its burst...

An Il-76 plane of the Russian emergencies ministry landed in Orsk, delivering food, personal care items, medicines, blankets, rubber boots and bottled water

The All-Russian cross-country skiing competitions in memory of Vladimir Belyaev are taking place in Apatity, the Murmansk Region, sb.by...

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