Preliminary Cause of Yaroslavl Auto Service Fire RevealedEmergency officials have identified an electrical fault as the preliminary cause of a major fire at an auto service center in Yaroslavl that destroyed eight vehicles overnight.
Two die in fuel tanker crash near VolkhovOn the Kola highway in the Leningrad region, a head-on collision occurred between a passenger car and a fuel tanker. The driver and passenger of the Nissan died at the scene.
Truck hits Gazelle van on M-12 approach, driver killedA 38-year-old man died when a Mercedes-Benz truck collided with his Gazelle Next van on an approach road to the M-12 highway in Bashkiria, according to traffic police.
Volgograd gas pipeline damaged, thousands without heatingUtility services in Volgograd are dealing with the aftermath of an accident on a gas main, which left residents of the Spartanovka neighborhood without heating and gas. Supply is being restored.
Woman and three children, including newborn, die in fireA woman and her three children, including a newborn, perished in a house fire in the stanitsa of Kholmskaya in Russia's Abinsk district. The only survivor was the eldest daughter.
Mother Hopes Body Found in Bosphorus Is Not Her Missing SonThe mother of Russian swimmer Nikolai Svechnikov awaits identification after a body was pulled from the Bosphorus, potentially solving his mysterious disappearance during a swim last August.
Court sentences St. Petersburg schoolgirlAn eighth-grader from St. Petersburg was sentenced to four years in a colony for posting photos of terrorism suspects in school with the caption 'Hero of Russia'.
