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'Please will you get a message to my wife in Paris, to say I bless my son?-reported final words of Admiral Kolchak'

Russian Federal consumer watchdog

Naked cheese-makers pose in a vat filled with milk in 'sickening' picture

Fears for the cheese industry in Omsk as investigation starts into shocking images of bathing session by male workers.

Tomsk Airport closed for the second time this week as Siberian forest fire crisis deepens

Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.

Major bid to ease Tomsk smoke chaos over raging forest fires

Extra planes and helicopters were sent into Tomsk on Friday to help fight the wildfires shrouding the region in smog.

Smog clouds gather over Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk

Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Recent forest fires 'destroyed' 2 million hectares - 'an unprecedented catastrophe in Siberia'

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.