Ex-military enlistment office assistant gets 6.5 years for fraudThe Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg has sentenced members of an organized group that fraudulently obtained payments from employers. The central figure was a former assistant to the military commissar.
Detached modular home kills five in Krasnoyarsk region crashFive people, including four children, died when a trailer carrying a modular home detached from a truck and collided with a minibus on the R-257 Siberia highway in the Rybinsky district on February 2. Four others were hospitalized.
Pipe bursts put Tula hospital's water supply at riskA medical worker at Tula City Clinical Hospital No. 2 has raised alarm over recurrent pipe bursts that could leave the hospital without water, jeopardizing patient safety.
Dump Truck Knocks Over Pipes Near Airport, Hits BusTraffic on the approach to Chkalov Airport in Nizhny Novgorod is paralyzed after an incident with a dump truck. Pipes knocked down by the truck collapsed onto a shuttle bus.
Investigators Name Possible Causes of Orenburg Plane CrashThe Investigative Committee is investigating pilot error or technical failure as the main causes of a training aircraft crash in Orenburg, which killed an instructor and two students.
Criminal case opened after training plane crash near OrskInvestigators have opened a criminal case into the crash of a training aircraft that killed three people near Orsk. Two main versions — pilot error or technical failure — are being considered.
Petersburg court sentences axe attacker of traffic inspectorA St. Petersburg court has sentenced a man to 4.5 years in prison for attacking a traffic inspector with an axe. The attack happened in July 2024 after the inspector ordered a sobriety test.
Powerful earthquake occurs in Sea of AzovA magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck the Sea of Azov on February 2, with tremors recorded at a depth of 10 kilometers near the Crimean coast.
Two Saint Petersburg Residents Detained After Cell Tower ArsonTwo residents of the Primorsky District of Saint Petersburg were detained on suspicion of intentionally setting fire to a cellular operator's equipment. According to the investigation, an unknown person who offered them $500 for the act might have prompted the crime.
