TBILISI, Georgia — Emergency services say at least four people died in a flood in Georgia's capital overnight after torrential rain caused the local river to burst its banks. The Agency for Emergency Situations said Sunday that a mother and her two children and an elderly woman died in Tbilisi's Ortachala neighborhood after...

... square kilometers. "They are pretty smart. It might work. The big issue is how the visas will work," said Nelson Law, a professor of law based in California, referring to restrictions China placed on travel to Macau as huge amounts of money flooded into casinos there. Lomakina said Russia had an agreement with China whereby Chinese citizens in a group between five and 100 people could enter the country without a visa and stay for two weeks. The project, which will focus on attracting Asian...

... students, or any students in particular, but against adult strangers on the premises of the children's camping zone. "Whether it's students or academicians, or anyone else — we don't care, they are grown ups," she said. "Parents have flooded us with complaints." Churyak pointed to a number of high-profile cases in Russia where pedophiles trespassed onto the territory of children's summer camps and abused children there. But Dmitry Bondarenko, deputy head of the Institute for...

... and the times of which Ellsworth told. Nothing at this stage of my life in the early 1960s could possibly have indicated I would ever have an interest in Russian culture. That would not come until much later. But there is one curious thing that came flooding back into my mind last week when I saw that the Tretyakov Gallery had mounted a retrospective of Nicolai Fechin's paintings. At some point many decades ago — the exact moment is lost forever to history — I was given a catalogue of...

... the times about which Ellsworth told. Nothing at this stage of my life in the early 1960s could possibly have indicated I would ever have an interest in Russian culture. That would not come until much later. But there is one curious thing that came flooding back into my mind last week when I saw that the Tretyakov Gallery had mounted a retrospective of Nicolai Fechin's paintings. At some point many decades ago — the exact moment is lost forever to history — I was given a catalogue of...

... parodies like the mock trial of Yulia Tymoshenko." But Tymoshenko seems able to create trouble for Yanukovych by just lying in prison. Kharkiv, the city where she is being held, will stage three matches in the Euro qualifying stages. With the city flooded with foreign journalists, the Yanukovych leadership is aware of the fertile PR ground that Tymoshenko will be able to exploit without even stirring from her prison bed. 179738

... recent interview with Vedomosti. Since that time, the ministry has grown into a powerful military-like structure with an annual budget of 180 billion rubles ($6 billion). Its responsibilities have expanded to assisting in emergency operations like fires, floods and earthquakes at home and abroad, making Shoigu the most recognized and popular government official in Russia — even though he holds a senior post in the increasingly unpopular ruling United Russia party. His ministry has also provided...

... area kill Baltic herring spawn. Others are less worried about fish than about existing infrastructure. Dredging work — which alone is set to cost 15.2 billion rubles — will be carried out not far from Bronka, next to the St. Petersburg flood-defense dam and the road tunnel that runs beneath it to Kronstadt Island in the middle of the gulf. "It is still unclear how the muddy ground will react to new construction. Apart from that, the dam was built without taking into consideration...