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Around 2,500 houses are flooded and at least four people are killed after the Orsk dam in Orenburg, Russia, bursts due to maintenance errors following heavy rainfall. Around 47,000 people in Russia and Kazakhstan are evacuated. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev calls it one of the "worst natural disasters in the past 80 years".
2024-04-6

Eleven people are killed and 13 others are reported missing during floods in Beijing, China. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from the city.
2023-08-1

After heavy rainfall in Delhi, India, the Yamuna reaches record-high water levels, resulting in flood warnings and evacuations.
2023-07-13

Fourteen people are killed in wildfires in north-eastern Kazakhstan, while 316 others are evacuated, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev responds by sacking Emergency Situations Minister Yuri Ilyin.
2023-06-10

At least 15 people are killed in a fire at a café in Kostroma, Russia. Two hundred fifty others are evacuated. The fire was started by a flare gun that discharged during an altercation.
2022-11-5

Russia announces that it will evacuate civilians from Kherson to "other regions of the country" following an appeal from Kherson Military-Civilian Administration leader Volodymyr Saldo.
2022-10-13

Kazakhstan says that around 98,000 Russian civilians have entered the country by land and air since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a military mobilization.
2022-09-27

Kazakhstan will lift their COVID-19 travel restrictions at the country's borders with Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan.
2022-04-7

Soyuz MS-11 returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan, from the International Space Station carrying Canadian David Saint-Jacques, American Anne McClain and Russian Oleg Kononenko. The astronauts and cosmonaut spent 204 days aboard the ISS, a record for Canada.
2019-06-24

A Soyuz space capsule containing Oleg Kononenko (Russia), André Kuipers (Netherlands) and Don Pettit (United States) lands safely in Kazakhstan.
2012-07-1