State Of Emergency Declared As Fires Burn Russia's Black Sea Coast
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Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko announced a state of emergency in that southern Russian port city due to forest fires engulfing the outskirts of several villages and threatening others in the Krasnodar region.