Russian Officials Plead With Tourists to Stop Taking Selfies Next to Erupting Volcano
The Russian Emergencies Ministry was forced to issue a public warning about the mortal danger of getting to close to the crater of an erupting volcano, after photos and videos of daredevils right next to a lava filled volcano cone started showing up online. Klyuchevskaya Sopka, an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the […]
Russian Far East Region Experiences Particularly Bad “Mosquito Tornadoes”
Villages on the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, in the Russian Far-East are experiencing scenes that seem taken out of an Alfred Hitchkok movie. Only instead of birds invading their community, it’s billions of mosquitoes swirling into visible “tornadoes”. Villages like Ust-Kamchatsk are used to being invaded by large number of mosquitoes every summer, […]