TASS/. Rescuers have succeeded in freeing four orcas stranded in shallow water near the settlement of Ustyevoye in Russia’s Kamchatka, as the animals were able to swim to the safety of deeper ...

"According to visual evaluations, the ash column is rising as high as 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the sea level," TASS ... a coastal city in Russia's eastern Kamchatka region, at 10:10 p.m ...

From the mouth of the Bolshaya, on Kamchatka's west coast, it must enter the bigger world of the Sea of Okhotsk, a frigid but nourishing body of water between the peninsula and mainland Russia.

TASS/. An Antonov An-26 passenger plane that went missing in Russia’s Kamchatka region could have crashed into the sea, an emergency source told TASS. "According to preliminary information ...