Russia wins European Athletics Championship in overall standings.

BARCELONA, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian national team has won
the European Athletics Championship in overall standings with a total of
24 medals, including 10 gold, 6 silver and eight bronze. France is second
and Britain is third.
On the final day of competitions the Russian women's and men's teams
won two sets of gold medals in a 4X400 m relay race while Dmitry Safronov
won a bronze medal in the marathon.

. Battalion of Moscow military district fights fires near Moscow.

MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - A pipeline battalion of the Moscow
military district arrived in the Egoryevsk and Shatura districts of the
Moscow region to help fighting forest and peat fires on Sunday. The
battalion will lay down more than 20 kilometers of pipelines to supply
water to fire sources, according to Vladimir Drobyshevsky, the press
secretary of the Russian Defence Ministry department for the rear.
Drobysehvsky said that the battalion had 150 men and more than 70
equipment units. Another army battalion is fighting fires in the Nizhniy
Novgorod region.
More than 4,000 troops and about 200 equipment units of the Russian
Defence Ministry are helping to extinguish fires across Russia.

. Hot telephone line for fire victims opens in Moscow region.

MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - The authorities of the Moscow region
have opened a hot telephone line for the victims of forest and peat fires.
"The hot line is open at the regional Ministry of social protection.
Its telephones: 8-498-602-07-53 and 8-498-602-07-38," regional
administration sources told Itar-Tass.
According to the latest reports, there are 18 sources of forest and
peat fires in the Moscow region.
"They are posing no threat to populated localities," the press service
of the governor of the Moscow region says.
"A total of 1,627 people and 518 equipment units have been mobilized
to liquidate fire sources in the woods and on peat bogs," the source
emphasized.
In the meantime, the Russian Defence Ministry has also stepped in the
struggle against forest fires. A pipeline battalion of the Moscow military
district arrived in the Egoryevsk and Shatura districts of the Moscow
region to help fighting forest and peat fires on Sunday. The battalion
will lay down more than 20 kilometers of pipelines to supply water to fire
sources, according to Vladimir Drobyshevsky, the press secretary of the
Russian Defence Ministry department for the rear.
Drobysehvsky said that the battalion had 150 men and more than 70
equipment units. Another army battalion is fighting fires in the Nizhniy
Novgorod region.
More than 4,000 troops and about 200 equipment units of the Russian
Defence Ministry are helping to extinguish fires across Russia.

.Authorities in Moscow region to pay compensation to fire victims.

MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - The authorities of the Moscow region
are starting paying material compensation to the victims of forest and
peat fires. A regional administration source told Itar-Tass that each
fire-stricken family would get 110,000 roubles from the regional budget in
addition to aid allocated from the federal budget.
"Families who have lost someone in the fires will receive 300,000
roubles from the regional budget and people suffering from burns or
injuries will get 150,000 roubles," the source went on to say.
Boris Gromov, the governor of the Moscow region, has met the residents
of two settlements - Kadanok and Mokhovoye - in the Lukhovitsky district,
which is worst hit by fires. Gromov promised them that each family that
had lost a house or an apartment would be provided with new comfortable
housing.
The authorities of the Moscow region have opened a hot telephone line
for the victims of forest and peat fires.
"The hot line is open at the regional Ministry of social protection.
Its telephones: 8-498-602-07-53 and 8-498-602-07-38," regional
administration sources told Itar-Tass.
According to the latest reports, there are 18 sources of forest and
peat fires in the Moscow region.
"They are posing no threat to populated localities," the press service
of the governor of the Moscow region says.
"A total of 1,627 people and 518 equipment units have been mobilized
to liquidate fire sources in the woods and on peat bogs," the source
emphasized.
In the meantime, the Russian Defence Ministry has also stepped in the
struggle against forest fires. A pipeline battalion of the Moscow military
district arrived in the Egoryevsk and Shatura districts of the Moscow
region to help fighting forest and peat fires on Sunday. The battalion
will lay down more than 20 kilometers of pipelines to supply water to fire
sources, according to Vladimir Drobyshevsky, the press secretary of the
Russian Defence Ministry department for the rear.
Drobyshevsky said that the battalion had 150 men and more than 70
equipment units. Another army battalion is fighting fires in the Nizhniy
Novgorod region.
More than 4,000 troops and about 200 equipment units of the Russian
Defence Ministry are helping to extinguish fires across Russia.

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