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A Dispatch from Russia's Flood-Hit Orenburg Region

Russia on the Record
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The Russian city of Orenburg is famous for its elegant lace shawls, which are so fine they can be folded up to be so small that they can fit in a goose's egg. But the city and its surrounding regions have made headlines for a different reason this week, as historic flooding from the Ural River has forced thousands of people to be evacuated.

In this episode, we read out a dispatch from Orenburg by one of our reporters who went there this week.

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