In Moscow, presence of IDF generals sends a message of military urgency

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot during a visit to the northern border of Israel on August 18, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In rare move, Netanyahu brings both IDF chief and intelligence head to Russia to drive home concerns on Hezbollah, Syria

20 killed, over 160 injured as Moscow Metro carriages derail in rush hour

Rescuers and paramedics evacuate passengers injured as several subway cars derailed in Moscow, on July 15, 2014. (AFP Photo / Dmitry Serebryakov)

At least six killed in train crash near Moscow

A man stands at a passenger train damaged in a collision with a freight train in Moscow region May 20, 2014.   REUTERS/Grigory Dukor

Moscow school shooting: Policeman, teacher killed, hostages released

RIA Novosti/Maxim Blinov

Radical Islamists arrested in Moscow with bombs, hand grenades and guns seized

File picture shows police and Interior Ministry troops in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Russia’s interior ministry said on Wednesday its agents had detained 14 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

Dozens dead in Russian plane crash

 

 

Emerald ash borer beetle on the march across Europe

The arrival of EAB from the US has raised fears about the future of ash trees in Europe

Russia bus bomb: Volgograd blast kills six

Damaged Russian bus in Volgograd, 21 Oct. 2013; A suspected female suicide bomber has set off explosives on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least six people.

Over 1,600 migrants rounded up after ethnic riots in Moscow – Videos

Dozens feared dead in psychiatric hospital fire in Russia

Emergency response team working on the fire scene at a mental hospital in the village of Ramensky. There were reportedly 41 people in the hospital but three survived.(RIA Novosti / Andrey Stenin)

 (RT) Up to 37 people are believed to have died after a fire engulfed a psychiatric hospital in Russia’s Novgorod Region. The firemen have managed to localize the fire that spread over 670 square meters of the building.

“According to refined data, there were about 60 people inside. More than 20 were evacuated by the facility’s administration. The fate of 37 remains unknown. But that does not mean that they are dead,” the head of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry Oleg Voronov told RIA Novosti. It is possible they got out themselves, he added.

According to preliminary information 59 people were inside the building when the blaze broke out at 22:52 GMT on Thursday. Twenty two people were evacuated with no injuries while over a dozen managed to get out themselves.

“Everything has collapsed inside as a result of the fire,” local police source told RIA. “The people believed to be inside are now most likely dead.”