... atmosphere here was tingling with uncertainty on a recent afternoon as the firefighters, emergency specialists, doctors and other personnel waited for news on who would replace their charismatic boss, Sergei Shoigu, who built the Emergency Situations Ministry from scratch in 20 years and left its helm Friday. "Shoig... ... more serious issues to deal with, like the Interior and Health and Social Development ministries." A minister's job can be difficult, as Shoigu indicated at a farewel...

A Siberian man got stuck in a trash chute while trying to hide from his girlfriend, the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Tyumen said in a report on their site Thursday. A Siberian man got stuck in a trash chute while trying...

... develop the Far East. Putin warned the new Cabinet that they faced a tough challenge amid global economic turmoil. “The situation in the global economy is unclear; there are quite a lot of factors that make it opaque,” Putin said in televised... ... job. The ministry lost its “tourism” responsibility. Alexander Konovalov remained justice minister. Former Deputy Emergency Situation Minister Vladimir Puchkov received promotion to be the minister. Writer and chairman of the previous State...

... were injured and four were killed when a school bus full of children collided with another bus in the Stavropol region, local Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Oleg Degtyarev said. Media reports said late Sunday that a fifth victim had died in the accident...

... of Vladivostok early Friday set off a series of explosions, injuring a soldier and prompting the evacuation of area residents, the Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement. The blasts went on for hours, leading the fire to intensify through early afternoon and...

... inauguration as Moscow governor on Thursday, promised to promote investment and raise the region's $10 billion budget. The former emergency situations minister is replacing Boris Gromov, whose dozen-year tenure was marked by several corruption scandals, including the...

... "Miracle on Ice," but for a group of New York City firefighters it was just as satisfying. After losing to Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry team in New York last year, the FDNY hockey team exacted sweet revenge in a rematch in Moscow on Friday, acing...

... will gain access to the LTE networks, and Scartel — the funding and existing infrastructure. This would result in the emergence of a monopolist in the Russian telecommunications market, which would also have the incomparable advantage of timing... ... company must be changed to include an "effective owner," who will be able to force things and take advantage of the situation. Against this background, the idea of an IPO looks especially interesting as an alternative means for Usmanov to acquire...

... operation, including rescuers, psychologists, medical experts, and investigators, RIA-Novosti reported. The rescuers from the Emergency Situations Ministry have been trained in mountain-climbing techniques and have the necessary equipment to work in the tough terrain...

... extortion. The first of four explosions Friday in Dnipropetrovsk rocked a tram stop shortly before noon, injuring 13 people, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova. The bomb was planted in a garbage bin. The second bomb, also planted in a garbage...

... defense and so-called frozen conflicts in Georgia have renewed suspicions and battered trust between the countries. This corrosive situation is only amplified by the fact that both countries are in an election year when moderation is viewed as a weakness and... ... the United States' nor Russia's best interests to attempt to gain a strategic military advantage over the other. "We have emerged from the Cold War and continue to face new complex problems, but the strategic stability we achieved should not be lost...