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TWO Russian men died in a sauna after jumping into a plunge pool that had accidentally been heated to boiling point, investigators and media said. The two men jumped into the pool to cool down after sweating in a steam room. A third man tried to save the victims but was unable to pull the men out [...]

In April, 29th, 1961 a doctor of the 6th Soviet Antarctic expedition Leonid Rogozov aged 27 felt pain in a right lower belly and fever. The next day brought only exasperation. Having no chance to call a plane and being the only doctor at the station “Novolazarevskaya”, at night, in April, 30th the surgeon made an appendix removal operation on [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, created an inadvertent laboratory to study the impacts of radiation — and more than twenty years later, the site still holds surprises. Reinhabiting the large dead zone around the accident site may have to wait longer than expected. Radioactive cesium isn’t disappearing from the environment as quickly as [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared a crusade on corrupt bureaucrats after the country’s most deadly blaze claimed the lives of 135 people in a nightclub fire in the Russian city of Perm. “All the vices of our bureaucracy were exposed by this tragedy. Its incompetence, corruption and links to businesses,” Putin told [...]