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2024 Central Asian floods. In April 2024, extensive flooding impacted several regions of Kazakhstan and Russia, specifically in the Ural Mountains and Siberia. [2] Snow melt caused freshets [1] resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. [3] In Russia, a federal emergency was declared. [4] Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated [5][6 ...
The Orsk Dam collapsed in the evening of 5 April, causing evacuations. [2] Officials in the downstream city of Orsk said that the situation was rapidly worsening, and the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called it the country’s worst natural disaster in the last 80 years. [6] The governor of Orenburg Oblast, Denis Pasler, also ...
In 2021, 14-year-old Kazakh Snezhanna Lee, an Aktobe native, won the gold cup and $1 million South Korean won ($851 USD) at the 7th annual International Super Queen Fashion contest in Seoul, South Korea. According to The Astana Times, the judges were fond of her traditional Kazakh outfits, among other skills, which led to her winning the prize ...
April 11, 2024 at 2:23 AM. By Guy Faulconbridge, Olzhas Auyezov. MOSCOW/ALMATY (Reuters) -Here is a summary of the impact of record floods which have swamped large areas of Russia and Kazakhstan ...
ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate ...
More than 300 houses and nearly 700 residential plots have been flooded in Russia's Kurgan region straddling the Tobol River near the border with Kazakhstan, Russia's emergency ministry said on ...
ORSK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area ...
The 2022 Kazakh unrest, [a] also known as January Events, [b] [15] [16] [17] Bloody January, [c] [18] [19] or the January Tragedy, [d] [20] [21] was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January.