A MASSIVE fire engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine in an Arctic shipyard yesterday, but there has been no radiation leak or injuries, officials said.

A massive fire engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine in an Arctic shipyard today, but there has been no radiation leak or injuries, officials said.

AN oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian far eastern island of Sakhalin yesterday when it ran into a storm while being towed, leaving 49 of the crew unaccounted for, the regional Emergencies Ministry said.

An oil drilling platform has capsized in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia’s east coast, leaving four people dead and 49 missing.

EMERGENCY officials say that 102 people, including dozens of children, are missing and at least one is dead after a passenger boat with more than 180 people on board sank in the Volga River yesterday.

AN AGING Russian airliner went down in heavy fog and burst into flames just short of a runway in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people in a crash that officials blamed on pilot error.

A passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames on a main road in north-western Russia, just short of a runway whose high-intensity lights had failed, killing 44 people. Eight people survived.

Widespread fear that Japan’s nuclear crisis could send radioactive fallout Russia’s way is proving a bonanza for shops selling everything from face masks and iodine to vodka and wine.

Two ferries carrying foreigners trying to leave strife-torn Libya were waiting to leave Tripoli today, delayed by officialdom and rough seas, while a Russian-chartered ferry arrived at a port further east.

Officials of the Moscow airport where a suicide bomber killed 35 people must bear responsibility for security failures there, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said today.

Eight foreign citizens, including two Britons, were among the 35 people killed in a suicide bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said today.

A SUICIDE bomber carrying a suitcase walked into Moscow’s busiest airport yesterday and set off a huge explosion, killing at least 35 people, reportedly including two Britons.

FAMISHED bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries — and reportedly eating at least one body — after a scorching summer destroyed their natural food sources of forest berries and mushrooms, officials said.

SEVERAL thousand Muscovites are thought to have died in July alone from this year’s unprecedented heatwave and August could add more fatalities, a Russian scientist said yesterday.

FIRES have scorched forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official said yesterday, but it was unclear what danger the smoke from such wildfires could pose.

DEATHS in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and a sweltering heat wave, a top health official said yesterday.

WILDFIRES were raging close to a shelter housing hundreds of dogs and retired circus animals, animal activists said yesterday, as the death toll from weeks of blazes across Russia rose to 50.

MOSCOW was engulfed yesterday by the thickest blanket of smog yet this summer, an acrid, choking haze from wildfires that have wiped out Russian forests, villages and a military base.

Wildfires that have wiped out Russian forests, villages and a military base sent the thickest blanket of smog yet over Moscow today, as emergency officials said the death toll had reached 48.

Fears grew today that there are not enough crews to battle the devastating wildfires sweeping western Russia, as the country’s emergency chief said some were out of control.

FOREST fires raged across Russia yesterday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 20 people, including three firefighters.

Two workers were killed and four others injured when a methane explosion tore through Russia’s largest underground coal mine today, a regional emergency services official said.

It is being reported that a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski has crashed, with 87 people feared dead.

A wolf has attacked and injured nine people in northern Tajikistan, an emergencies official said today.

A LANDSLIDE buried a village in southern Kyrgyzstan late on Monday, killing 33 people including 16 children, emergency officials said.

AT least 58 people, most Russian holidaymakers, have died in floods in Russia's Black Sea region, the Emergencies Ministry said yesterday, as fierce weather continued to hit widespread areas of Europe and Asia.

A LARGE Russian airliner carrying 16 crew home after flight duty crashed in woods shortly after take-off from Moscow's biggest airport yesterday, killing at least 14 people.

At least 10 people died today when a steamroller tumbled off a truck and crashed onto a passenger bus in central Russia, emergency workers said.