INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tuesday.Thousands have been forced to evacuate Orsk this week as the Ural River swelled
The floodwaters are now reaching dangerous levels in the main city of Orenburg, with the peak of the flood expected on Wednesday.Orsk Mayor
officialstold state media that electricity supplies were also being phased in.Sergei Salmin, the mayor of Orenburg, a city of 560,000
beendeployed to prevent looting
that 689 people have been evacuated from the overflowing Tobol river.The mayor's office in Kurgan, a city of around 300,000 people, said the
floods could reach the local airport.Russia declared regionwide states of emergency in the Orenburg, Tyumen and Kurgan regions.The
Peskov told reporters.President Vladimir Putin is still not planning to visit the Orenburg region, Peskov said, adding that the Russian
