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ASTANA. April 10 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan is going through difficult times - the country has been hit by floods, the largest in the last 80 years. A state of emergency has been declared in ten regions. And although, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, the floods are subsiding in the Aktobe, Akmola, Karaganda and Kostanay regions of Kazakhstan, the situation still remains critical.

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.

Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 110,000 people to evacuate

Floods gripped cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing over 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.

The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals and in the Tyumen region in western Siberia, which is the largest hydrocarbon basin in the world. The Ural river, which rises in the Ural mountains and flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian Sea, burst through embankment dams in the Urals city of Orsk on April 5 and flooded parts of the city of Oren