MOSCOW (AP) - Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country's hottest summer on record.
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The dry season has also triggered numerous wildfires. Russia Today posted this amateur video footage of some Russians managing a lucky escape from a raging forest fire in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region.
Good morning. It's Friday, July 30, 2010. Here's what's happening:
In an apparent bid to dramatize his flagging anticorruption drive, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has taken the unusual step of ordering an investigation into allegations that a top Kremlin official took huge bribes in connection with the troubled 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The co-owner of the London tower known as the Gherkin says the time is right to buy more offices in the U.K. capital and is about to make its biggest acquisition since 2007.
By the numbers, the authorities care about stray dogs as much as people. Moscow City Hall has allocated $190 per month for every stray dog that is housed in its animal shelters this year the same amount that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has deemed as Russia's minimum living wage in 2010.
MOSCOW President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to investigate possible Kremlin corruption linked to the 2014 Sochi Olympics and issued the handwritten order on a copy of the opposition-minded newspaper Novaya Gazeta.