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 and swamping parts of the ...

The current flooding "might be the biggest disaster in terms of its scale and impact in more than 80 years," according to Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Reports had indicated that ...

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Emergency Situations is taking preventive flood measures in the Aktobe and North Kazakhstan regions, with extensive work underway to strengthen embankments, clear drainage ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, March 18. To get ahead of the game when it comes to floods, Kazakhstan and Russia have rolled up their sleeves and begun daily exchanges of information on all the transboundary ...

TASS/. Massive floods in Kazakhstan that began in March became the largest natural disaster in the country over the past 80 years, the country's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a televised ...

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ASTANA—President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has announced that the 34th session of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan will ...

ALMATY, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The flood forecasting and modeling system, Tasqyn, has been put into operation in Kazakhstan to prepare for the upcoming flood season, the country's Kazinform news ...

TASS/. Kazakh rescuers evacuated over 85,000 people from a number of settlements due to the flood, said Saipash Erasyl, the senior officer of the Civil Defense and Military Units Committee of the ...