Premier Dmitry Medvedev launches inquiry into the tragedy which leaves almost 600 injured. 

One man's carelessness causes 'fire tornado' which destroys 59 houses, another avoidable blaze razes 17 homes, as state of emergency called.

Firefighters tenderly carry the little pigs to safety during four hour battle to extinguish fire.

A quarter of all Russian forests, 89% of stocks in Sakha Republic, could be left to burn, even though they are essential to fight global warming.

Overheating phone caused 'scare in the cabin', say reports.

The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.

Hero staff of Blagoveschensk cardio centre had just cut open the patient’s chest when a major fire began.