Sources: BBC IOL
A Ukrainian–Russian carrier rocket Zenit-3SL carrying a telecommunications satellite Intelsat 27 fails 40 seconds after the lift-off and plunges into the Pacific Ocean shortly during Sea Launch. 2013-02-1
Russian security forces kill three rebels in Buinaksk in the Caucasus region of Dagestan. 2010-11-14
For failure to deal with the recent wildfires the head of Russia's forestry agency is fired by Vladimir Putin and replaced with his deputy. 2010-08-20
Russia announces that it is slowly bringing the 2010 Russian wildfires under control. 2010-08-14
A forest fire grows in size near Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov. 2010-08-13
Doctors in Moscow are encouraged to use "less frightening" causes of death as the mortality rate from heatstroke soars with fires burning across Russia. 2010-08-12
Fires are reported in Russia's nuclear-contaminated forests from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, amid concerns about the spread of radiation. 2010-08-11
Pollution hits record levels in Moscow as large wildfires continue to devastate Russia. 2010-08-7
A Russian military garrison near Naro-Fominsk outside Moscow moves its artillery rockets to a safer location as the wildfires get nearer. 2010-08-5
Hundreds of new wildfires erupt in Russia as fire has damaged or destroyed 27 towns and villages. 2010-08-2