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Indonesia |
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Black box of Russian jet found 
Map of Mount Salak Indonesia An Indonesian search team has found the black box of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that crashed into Mount Salak, killing all 45 people on board
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Indonesia |
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12 bodies found in Russian jet wreckage Map of Mount Salak Indonesia Bad weather hampered recovery efforts as rescue teams combed a forbidding slope of an Indonesian mountain where a Russian jetliner crashed
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| May. 10 |
Indonesia |
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Russian plane wreckage found in Indonesia
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Moscow |
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Deadly blaze hits Moscow market
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Siberia |
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Russian plane crashes kills 32 Map of Tyumen Russia| A Russian passenger plane carrying 43 people has crashed shortly after take-off in Siberia. 11 survivors have been taken to hospital | |
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Russian ice-floe anglers rescued
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| Jan.15 |
Oceania |
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Phobos: Failed probe 'falls over Pacific' |
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| Jan.13 |
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Russian space probe heading down |
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| Dec.30 |
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Russia nuclear sub fire extinguished |
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| Dec.29 |
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Nuclear submarine in dock fire A fire has broken out during repairs to a Russian nuclear submarine at a dock near the northern port of Murmansk
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| Dec.23 |
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Another Soyuz rocket launch fails |
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| Dec.20 |
Russian Far East |
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More aircraft search Russian oil rig scene |
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| Dec.19 |
Russian Far East |
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Survivors on raft found after oil rig sinks |
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| Dec.17 |
Russian Far East |
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Russia oil rig capsizes under tow
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Probe fails to set course to Mars |
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| Sep.19 |
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Pilot error, drunk navigator caused crash |
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Russian crash survivor dies in hospital |
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| Sep.7 |
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Hockey world mourns Russia crash |
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Airliner with ice hockey team in fatal crash 
Map of Yaroslavl Russia| An airliner carrying members of a major league ice hockey team has crashed shortly after taking off killing 43 people. 2 people survived with serious injuries. The Yak-42 burst into flames shortly after leavin... | |
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| Aug.24 |
Siberia |
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Cargo rocket crashes in Siberia
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| Jul.10 |
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Cruise ship sinks with 182 aboard Map of Tatarstan Russia| A cruise ship carrying 182 people sank in Russia's Volga River, leaving at least one person dead and large numbers missing | |
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| Jun.20 |
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Northwestern Russia jet crash kills dozens Map of Petrozavodsk Russia At least 44 people died when twin-engine Tupolev-134 crashed onto a highway outside the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk
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Russia grounds all Tu-154Bs after fire |
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| Jan.1 |
Siberia |
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Russian band in plane fire drama
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| Dec.5 |
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Russia satellites orbit failure |
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| Dec.4 |
Moscow |
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2 die as Russian plane skids off runway
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| Aug.14 |
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Russia ban on grain export begins
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Satellite images show scope of wildfires |
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| Aug.12 |
Moscow |
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Moscow 'hiding heatstroke cases' |
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| Aug.6 |
Moscow |
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Muscovites struggle to breathe The acrid smoke, from thousands of square miles of wildfires, drove carbon monoxide levels in Moscow 5 times higher than what is considered ...
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| Aug.2 |
Moscow |
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Russian fires prompt state of emergency Authorities have imposed a state of emergency around about 500 towns and villages because of wildfires burning across the west of the country
| 700 fires are burning, covering about 450 square miles.
Most of the fires were started accidentally by people burning garbage, dropping cigarettes, or failing to extinguish campfires or barbecues properly
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| Jul.31 |
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Wildfires:25 dead, thousands homeless The Russian government said it has sent some 240,000 people to fight the blazes, which are among the worst ever to hit the region
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| Jul.30 |
Moscow |
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Medvedev orders army to fight wildfires |
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| Jul.2 |
Global |
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Russian spaceship fails to dock |
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| May.19 |
Moscow |
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No terror caused Polish plane crash |
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| May.11 |
Siberia |
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52 dead in coal mine blasts
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| May.8 |
Siberia |
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Mine blasts kill 11, trap dozens more
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| Apr.10 |
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Polish president died in plane crash Map of Smolensk Russia Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors
| Kaczynski, his wife Maria and several senior government figures were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. They included the army chief of staff Gen Franciszek Gagor, central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek and deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. There were a total of 132 people on the plane
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| Dec.6 |
Ural |
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Death toll rises in nightclub inferno |
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| Dec.5 |
Ural |
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Five held as investigators probe club fire
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Moscow |
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Russia to mourn club fire victims |
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| Dec.4 |
Ural |
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152 killed in nightclub blast and fire Map of Perm Russia An explosion at a nightclub killed at least 101 people and injured at least 140 others. The preliminary theory was use of pyrotechnical devices
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| Nov.29 |
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18 still missing after train derailment |
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| Nov.27 |
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Train derails, 26 died
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| Aug.18 |
Siberia |
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62 still missing after blast at plant An explosion at Russia's the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant, Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, killed 12 people
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| May.9 |
Moscow |
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Gas blast causes fire |
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| Feb.11 |
Siberia |
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Russian and US satellites collide The communications satellites have collided in space in the first such reported mishap at high speed nearly 780km over Siberia
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| Jan.14 |
Moscow |
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Privatisation 'raised death rate' |
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| Dec.16 |
Israel |
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Tourist bus crash kills 24
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| Nov.9 |
Russian Far East |
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Fire system caused 20 sub deaths |
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| Nov.8 |
Russian Far East |
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Twenty die on Russian submarine
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| Sep.13 |
Ural |
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No survivors in jetliner crash The Boeing 737 carrying 88 people crashed early morning en route to Perm from Moscow when the pilots lost communication
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| Aug.29 |
Puerto Rico |
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Jets avoid collision by a minute |
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| Nov.12 |
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Death toll rises in oil disaster |
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| Nov.11 |
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Five ships sink in storms; 23 missing Map of Kerch Strait Russia At least 2 sailors died and 23 were missing when 5 ships sank in storms in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea
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Russian oil tanker breaks in two
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| Aug.3 |
Russian Far East |
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Quake leaves 2,000 homeless |
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| Mar.20 |
Siberia |
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Search for miners after 100 killed |
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| Mar.19 |
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63 elderly die in home fire
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Siberia |
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Mine explosion kills more than 100
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| Mar.17 |
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Seven dead in plane crash
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| Dec.11 |
Germany |
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Car of ex-spy contact contaminated |
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| Dec.8 |
Moscow |
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Hospital fire killed 45 women
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| Dec.1 |
London |
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Pair test positive for polonium
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London |
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Dead spy's contact 'has radiation' |
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| Aug.22 |
Eastern Ukraine |
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Russia airliner with 170 aboard crashes The pilot reported a fire on board and heavy turbulence. A jet crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all on board
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| Jul.9 |
Siberia |
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122 dead in airline crash
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| May.2 |
Sochi |
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Jet lost over Russia, 113 on board An Armenian plane disappeared from radar near the Black Sea resort of Sochi. debris had been found off the coast
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| Apr.20 |
Russian Far East |
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7.7-magnitude quake |
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| Feb.23 |
Moscow |
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64 dead in roof collapse
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Moscow |
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49 dead in roof collapse |
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| Jan.20 |
Moscow |
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Freeze kills at least 40 |
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| Dec.15 |
St. Petersburg |
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Explosion at nuclear plant |
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| Nov.24 |
Beijing |
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China warns Russia of toxic slick |
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| Aug.12 |
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Russia marks Kursk five years on |
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| Aug.6 |
Russian Far East |
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Trapped sub surfaces, crew safe A mini-submarine that had been trapped at the bottom of the ocean surfaced, and all 7 crew members are alive
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Russian Far East |
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Rescuers lifting disabled sub |
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| Aug.5 |
Russian Far East |
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Russians race to rescue sailors |
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| Jun.21 |
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Malfunction fear for 'solar sail' |
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| Aug.25 |
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Hunt for clues to crashes |
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| Aug.24 |
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Two passenger jets crash 2 planes have crashed in nearly simultaneous incidents, with as many as 94 people feared killed
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| Mar.16 |
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58 dead in apartment blast |
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| Mar.14 |
Moscow |
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Historic building ablaze |
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| Mar.6 |
Arctic |
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Dramatic rescue of North Pole 12 |
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| Feb.15 |
Moscow |
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Hope fades for roof collapse survivors |
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| Feb.14 |
Moscow |
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Roof collapse kills 26
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| Nov.23 |
Moscow |
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32 dead in dorm blaze |
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| Oct.25 |
North Caucasus |
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Rescuers Free 33 Trapped Coal Miners |
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| Aug.29 |
Arctic |
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Nuclear submarine sinks
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| Apr.7 |
Siberia |
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School fire kills 22 |
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| Jan.8 |
St. Petersburg |
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Russian freeze traps ships |
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| Oct.29 |
Moscow |
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Siege gas 'was morphine spray' |
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| Oct.27 |
Moscow |
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Gas killed all 115 hostages in raid
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| Sep.21 |
North Caucasus |
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Avalanche: 100 feared dead
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| Aug.19 |
Chechnya |
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Crash: 115 servicemen dead Soldiers and crew are feared dead after a military helicopter crash-landed. Indications that a fire had broken out
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| Jul.28 |
Moscow |
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14 die in airport crash |
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| Jul.1 |
West Germany |
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71 dead in midair collision A Tupolev 154 airliner and a Boeing 757 cargo plane collided over the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
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| May.12 |
Kazakhstan |
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Russian cosmodrome roof collapses |
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| Apr.27 |
Siberia |
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Former presidential candidate Lebed died |
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| Jan.27 |
Chechnya |
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Top Russians die in crash |
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| Oct.4 |
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Jet explodes over Black Sea
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| Jul.3 |
Siberia |
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Plane crash kills 143 |
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| Aug.12 |
Arctic |
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Kursk submarine went down Map of Barents Sea Arctic All 118 crew members on board the nuclear submarine perished when the Kursk exploded and sank
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| 2012 |
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| Apr.2 |
Moscow |
Deadly blaze hits Moscow market
| 2011 |
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| Dec.30 |
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Russia nuclear sub fire extinguished |
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| Dec.29 |
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Nuclear submarine in dock fire A fire has broken out during repairs to a Russian nuclear submarine at a dock near the northern port of Murmansk
| 2010 |
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| Aug.14 |
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Satellite images show scope of wildfires |
|
| Aug.2 |
Moscow |
Russian fires prompt state of emergency Authorities have imposed a state of emergency around about 500 towns and villages because of wildfires burning across the west of the country
| 700 fires are burning, covering about 450 square miles.
Most of the fires were started accidentally by people burning garbage, dropping cigarettes, or failing to extinguish campfires or barbecues properly
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| Jul.31 |
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Wildfires:25 dead, thousands homeless The Russian government said it has sent some 240,000 people to fight the blazes, which are among the worst ever to hit the region
|
| Jul.30 |
Moscow |
Medvedev orders army to fight wildfires |
| 2009 |
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| Dec.6 |
Ural |
Death toll rises in nightclub inferno |
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| Dec.5 |
Ural |
Five held as investigators probe club fire
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| Dec.5 |
Moscow |
Russia to mourn club fire victims |
| 2007 |
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| Mar.19 |
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63 elderly die in home fire
| 2006 |
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| Dec.8 |
Moscow |
Hospital fire killed 45 women
| 2004 |
|
| Mar.14 |
Moscow |
Historic building ablaze |
| 2003 |
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| Nov.23 |
Moscow |
32 dead in dorm blaze |
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| Apr.7 |
Siberia |
School fire kills 22 |
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|
| 2007 |
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| Aug.3 |
Russian Far East |
Quake leaves 2,000 homeless |
| 2006 |
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| Apr.20 |
Russian Far East |
7.7-magnitude quake |
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| 2008 |
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| Dec.16 |
Israel |
Tourist bus crash kills 24
|
|
| 2010 |
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| Aug.12 |
Moscow |
Moscow 'hiding heatstroke cases' |
| 2006 |
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| Dec.1 |
London |
Pair test positive for polonium
|
| Dec.1 |
London |
Dead spy's contact 'has radiation' |
| 2002 |
|
| Oct.29 |
Moscow |
Siege gas 'was morphine spray' |
|
| Oct.27 |
Moscow |
Gas killed all 115 hostages in raid
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|
| 2011 |
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| Dec.20 |
Russian Far East |
More aircraft search Russian oil rig scene |
|
| Dec.19 |
Russian Far East |
Survivors on raft found after oil rig sinks |
|
| Dec.17 |
Russian Far East |
Russia oil rig capsizes under tow
|
| Jul.10 |
|
Cruise ship sinks with 182 aboard Map of Tatarstan Russia| A cruise ship carrying 182 people sank in Russia's Volga River, leaving at least one person dead and large numbers missing | |
| 2008 |
|
| Nov.9 |
Russian Far East |
Fire system caused 20 sub deaths |
|
| Nov.8 |
Russian Far East |
Twenty die on Russian submarine
| 2007 |
|
| Nov.12 |
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Death toll rises in oil disaster |
|
| Nov.11 |
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Five ships sink in storms; 23 missing Map of Kerch Strait Russia At least 2 sailors died and 23 were missing when 5 ships sank in storms in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea
|
| Nov.11 |
|
Russian oil tanker breaks in two
| 2005 |
|
| Aug.12 |
|
Russia marks Kursk five years on |
|
| Aug.5 |
Russian Far East |
Russians race to rescue sailors |
| 2003 |
|
| Aug.29 |
Arctic |
Nuclear submarine sinks
|
| Jan.8 |
St. Petersburg |
Russian freeze traps ships |
| 2000 |
|
| Aug.12 |
Arctic |
Kursk submarine went down Map of Barents Sea Arctic All 118 crew members on board the nuclear submarine perished when the Kursk exploded and sank
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| May.11 |
Siberia |
52 dead in coal mine blasts
|
| May.8 |
Siberia |
Mine blasts kill 11, trap dozens more
| 2007 |
|
| Mar.19 |
Siberia |
Mine explosion kills more than 100
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| Aug.14 |
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Russia ban on grain export begins
| 2006 |
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| Jan.20 |
Moscow |
Freeze kills at least 40 |
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Yesterday |
Indonesia |
Black box of Russian jet found Map of Mount Salak Indonesia An Indonesian search team has found the black box of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that crashed into Mount Salak, killing all 45 people on board
|
| Sat. |
Indonesia |
12 bodies found in Russian jet wreckage Map of Mount Salak Indonesia Bad weather hampered recovery efforts as rescue teams combed a forbidding slope of an Indonesian mountain where a Russian jetliner crashed
|
| May. 10 |
Indonesia |
Russian plane wreckage found in Indonesia
|
| Apr.1 |
Siberia |
Russian plane crashes kills 32 Map of Tyumen Russia| A Russian passenger plane carrying 43 people has crashed shortly after take-off in Siberia. 11 survivors have been taken to hospital | |
| 2011 |
|
| Sep.19 |
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Pilot error, drunk navigator caused crash |
|
| Sep.12 |
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Russian crash survivor dies in hospital |
|
| Sep.7 |
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Hockey world mourns Russia crash |
|
| Sep.7 |
|
Airliner with ice hockey team in fatal crash Map of Yaroslavl Russia| An airliner carrying members of a major league ice hockey team has crashed shortly after taking off killing 43 people. 2 people survived with serious injuries. The Yak-42 burst into flames shortly after leavin... | |
|
| Jun.20 |
|
Northwestern Russia jet crash kills dozens Map of Petrozavodsk Russia At least 44 people died when twin-engine Tupolev-134 crashed onto a highway outside the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk
|
| Jan.2 |
|
Russia grounds all Tu-154Bs after fire |
|
| Jan.1 |
Siberia |
Russian band in plane fire drama
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.4 |
Moscow |
2 die as Russian plane skids off runway
|
| May.19 |
Moscow |
No terror caused Polish plane crash |
|
| Apr.10 |
|
Polish president died in plane crash Map of Smolensk Russia Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors
| Kaczynski, his wife Maria and several senior government figures were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. They included the army chief of staff Gen Franciszek Gagor, central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek and deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. There were a total of 132 people on the plane
|
| |
| 2008 |
|
| Sep.13 |
Ural |
No survivors in jetliner crash The Boeing 737 carrying 88 people crashed early morning en route to Perm from Moscow when the pilots lost communication
|
| Aug.29 |
Puerto Rico |
Jets avoid collision by a minute |
| 2007 |
|
| Mar.17 |
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Seven dead in plane crash
| 2006 |
|
| Aug.22 |
Eastern Ukraine |
Russia airliner with 170 aboard crashes The pilot reported a fire on board and heavy turbulence. A jet crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all on board
|
| Jul.9 |
Siberia |
122 dead in airline crash
|
| May.2 |
Sochi |
Jet lost over Russia, 113 on board An Armenian plane disappeared from radar near the Black Sea resort of Sochi. debris had been found off the coast
| 2004 |
|
| Aug.24 |
|
Two passenger jets crash 2 planes have crashed in nearly simultaneous incidents, with as many as 94 people feared killed
| 2002 |
|
| Aug.19 |
Chechnya |
Crash: 115 servicemen dead Soldiers and crew are feared dead after a military helicopter crash-landed. Indications that a fire had broken out
|
| Jul.28 |
Moscow |
14 die in airport crash |
|
| Jul.1 |
West Germany |
71 dead in midair collision A Tupolev 154 airliner and a Boeing 757 cargo plane collided over the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
|
| Apr.27 |
Siberia |
Former presidential candidate Lebed died |
|
| Jan.27 |
Chechnya |
Top Russians die in crash |
| 2001 |
|
| Oct.4 |
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Jet explodes over Black Sea
|
| Jul.3 |
Siberia |
Plane crash kills 143 |
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| Aug.6 |
Moscow |
Muscovites struggle to breathe The acrid smoke, from thousands of square miles of wildfires, drove carbon monoxide levels in Moscow 5 times higher than what is considered ...
| 2006 |
|
| Dec.11 |
Germany |
Car of ex-spy contact contaminated |
| 2005 |
|
| Nov.24 |
Beijing |
China warns Russia of toxic slick |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.23 |
Moscow |
64 dead in roof collapse
|
| Feb.23 |
Moscow |
49 dead in roof collapse |
| 2004 |
|
| Feb.14 |
Moscow |
Roof collapse kills 26
| 2002 |
|
| May.12 |
Kazakhstan |
Russian cosmodrome roof collapses |
|
|
| 2002 |
|
| Sep.21 |
North Caucasus |
Avalanche: 100 feared dead
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Nov.29 |
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18 still missing after train derailment |
|
| Nov.27 |
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Train derails, 26 died
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Apr.1 |
Russian Far East |
Russian ice-floe anglers rescued
| 2007 |
|
| Mar.20 |
Siberia |
Search for miners after 100 killed |
| 2005 |
|
| Aug.6 |
Russian Far East |
Trapped sub surfaces, crew safe A mini-submarine that had been trapped at the bottom of the ocean surfaced, and all 7 crew members are alive
|
| Aug.6 |
Russian Far East |
Rescuers lifting disabled sub |
| 2004 |
|
| Mar.6 |
Arctic |
Dramatic rescue of North Pole 12 |
|
| Feb.15 |
Moscow |
Hope fades for roof collapse survivors |
| 2003 |
|
| Oct.25 |
North Caucasus |
Rescuers Free 33 Trapped Coal Miners |
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Jan.15 |
Oceania |
Phobos: Failed probe 'falls over Pacific' |
|
| Jan.13 |
|
Russian space probe heading down |
| 2011 |
|
| Dec.23 |
|
Another Soyuz rocket launch fails |
|
| Nov.9 |
|
Probe fails to set course to Mars |
|
| Aug.24 |
Siberia |
Cargo rocket crashes in Siberia
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.5 |
|
Russia satellites orbit failure |
|
| Jul.2 |
Global |
Russian spaceship fails to dock |
| 2009 |
|
| Feb.11 |
Siberia |
Russian and US satellites collide The communications satellites have collided in space in the first such reported mishap at high speed nearly 780km over Siberia
| 2005 |
|
| Jun.21 |
|
Malfunction fear for 'solar sail' |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Dec.4 |
Ural |
152 killed in nightclub blast and fire Map of Perm Russia An explosion at a nightclub killed at least 101 people and injured at least 140 others. The preliminary theory was use of pyrotechnical devices
|
| Aug.18 |
Siberia |
62 still missing after blast at plant An explosion at Russia's the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant, Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, killed 12 people
|
| May.9 |
Moscow |
Gas blast causes fire |
| 2005 |
|
| Dec.15 |
St. Petersburg |
Explosion at nuclear plant |
| 2004 |
|
| Mar.16 |
|
58 dead in apartment blast |
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