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BBC News
August 13, 2010
The village of Verkhnyaya Vereya, in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia, was destroyed by wildfires. Web user loshadkin, who blogs for BBC Russian's LiveJournal community, visited the area. Photos and texts by loshadkin. Next image |. Previous image |. |. previous. Rubble and a black and whiteÃâà...
The Moscow Times (blog)
August 11, 2010
Verkhnyaya Vereya is one of several villages that dot the peat bog-filled forests in the region's Vyksa district, affectionately nicknamed by locals as Little Switzerland for its fresh air and virgin woods. Located 14 kilometers from the main local town, also called Vyksa, population 60,000, the village has aÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 9, 2010
A video, posted last week on YouTube, showed an uncomfortable prime minister surrounded by a voluble crowd of distraught, shouting residents from Verkhnyaya Vereya, a village in the Vyksunsky district that was completely destroyed by the fires: State television, however, is countering such rareÃâà...
Gawker
August 9, 2010
What happened this weekend? Major flooding killed hundreds in Asia and displaced thousands in Europe, while Russia battled back against peat fires blanketing Moscow in smog. Here, check out some of the breathtaking pictures. Over the weekend, huge floods hit Pakistan, India and China, killingÃâà...
Plain Dealer
August 2, 2010
SERGEI L. LOIKO, Los Angeles Times. MOSCOW -- From the smoke of the wildfires engulfing the Moscow region and the embarrassment of this summer's spy scandal, Vladimir Putin is re-emerging as Russia's most powerful man and, experts say, a candidate to reclaim the presidency a little more than aÃâà...
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