Emergency Situations Ministry

• Chernobyl the Issue: Disaster Site Tours Are Coming. Our View: Be a Power Player.

Looking to one-up your friends who are always taking exotic vacations? Ukraine's ominously named Emergency Situations Ministry has the answer. The ministry announced that next year it would open the 30- mile exclusion zone around the Chernobyl power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• December 22, 2010

• Ukraine to Open Chernobyl Area to Tourists Starting Next Year

KIEV, Ukraine | Want a better understanding of the world's worst nuclear disaster? Come tour the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy , the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 14, 2010

• Nearly 70 Dead, 31 Missing in Ukraine Mine Disaster

DONETSK, Ukraine - A raging fire hampered efforts to find trapped miners today as the death toll from a methane blast deep underground reached 69 - the worst disaster in years for Ukraine's dangerous coal mining industry. There were 31 miners still trapped in the massive Zasyadko mine more than 24 hours after the blast early Sunday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. More than 360 miners made it alive to the surface in the eastern city of Donetsk, officials said.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• November 20, 2007

• Ukrainian Government Sues in Uk - Alleges Corrupt Scheme in Purchases of Emergency Vehicles

LONDON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine today filed a claim in the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, against Legal Business Consultants Ltd., a UK company that is alleged to be part of an international conspiracy involving the inflated purchase price of depreciated vehicles to the ministry. The claim seeks damages for conspiracy and deceit. According to the claim, Legal Business Consultants and other conspirators have related ownership and connections with former officials of the Government of Ukraine. The claim states that the defendants conspired in a series of transactions resulting in the sale of 27 medical vehicles at grossly inflated prices to the Ministry.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 11, 2010

• 9 Killed As Roof in Moscow Collapses

MOSCOW (AP) -- The roof of a Moscow market collapsed early today, killing at least nine people and trapping an unknown number of people under the wreckage, an emergency official said. It was unclear how many people were in the Bauman market in eastern Moscow when the roof collapsed at 5:20 a.m., the duty officer at Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the toll could have been worse had the collapse occurred while the market was open for business.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• February 23, 2006

• Investigation of Crash Begins: ; Flight Recorders Have Been Found; Bad Weather Likely Culprit in Accident That Killed 170 People

SUKHA BALKA, Ukraine - Investigators today combed through the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a Ukrainian field during a severe thunderstorm, finding fragments of some of the 170 people on board who died. The two flight recorders from the Pulkovo Airlines' Tu-154 were also found amid the blackened debris, Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Kalabushkina said. Investigators hope the recorders can explain what caused the third passenger airliner crash this year in the former Soviet Union.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• August 24, 2006

• Russia Gold Mine Fire Death Toll Reaches 25

MOSCOW - Rescuers early today recovered the bodies of the last of 25 miners killed by a fire in a Siberian gold mine, while Russia's top emergency official suggested a delay in reporting the underground blaze was a fatal mistake. The bodies of the last four miners, who had been missing since the fire broke out Thursday in the Darasun mine some 3,000 miles east of Moscow, were found Sunday, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Natalya Lukash said.

• Charleston Gazette
• September 12, 2006

• About 150 Feared Dead in Siberian Plane Crash

MOSCOW - An airplane carrying about 200 people crashed Sunday in the Siberian city of Irkutsk and most on board were feared dead, officials said. The Sibir Airbus A-390 crashed on landing, veering off the runway and bursting into flames, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 10, 2006

• Airplane Crash in Russia Kills 88

MOSCOW -- A plane carrying 88 people crashed in central Russia early this morning killing all aboard, an emergency official said. The Boeing-737 traveling from Moscow to Perm went down about 3:40 a.m. today, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• September 14, 2008

• Shipwrecked Russians Rescued After Three Months ; Found Shelter at Abandoned Base

MOSCOW Eleven fishing boat crew members who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports. The eight men and three women took refuge at the base after their small boats collided on Oct. 10 off the southeastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, regional Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Olga Mikhailova was quoted as saying by the RIA-Novosti news agency.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 08, 2008