Warm weather is swelling of some of Russia's biggest rivers with meltwater from mountain snow and ice, forcing thousands to evacuate.
Moscow — Warm spring temperatures have unleashed torrents on parts of western Russia , where thawing ice and melting mountain snow are swelling some of Europe's biggest rivers and inundating towns and cities along their paths. The southwest Russia n city of Orenburg, near the Kazakh border, was bracing for its worst flooding in decades, while to the north, the entire region of Tyumen in western Siberia was put under a state of emergency as the flood risk mounted.
Leave right now.' Salmin told Russian television that Orenburg had not 'seen so much water' since the last high mark was registered in 1942. 'Since then there have been no floods. This is unprecedented.' President Vladimir Putin ordered a government commission to be established on the floods. His spokesman said Putin did not plan on visiting the flood zone but that he was being briefed on 'nature anomalies' in real time.
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