1.   However, the Ukrainian government said there was no such official working with its emergency situations ministry.

2.   Russia said it was sending a delegation from its foreign, defense and emergency situations ministries.

3.   The investigation revealed that they received weapons for killing Sanginov from Nazarali Yermatov, a former opposition warlord turned local emergency situations ministry official.

4.   A special team from the defense ministry left Moscow for the scene Saturday, the emergency situations ministry said.

5.   A German-funded ferry for delivering humanitarian aid from Tajikistan into Afghanistan was launched Monday, a spokesman for the Russian emergencies situations ministry said here.

6.   A spokesman for the emergency situations ministry said the plane was on a regional flight but added he had no further details.

7.   Counter-intelligence experts and officials from the interior and emergency situation ministries rushed to the scene.

8.   Five people were injured when an aircraft on an internal flight made an emergency landing after one of its engines failed, the emergency situations ministry said Thursday.

9.   Forest fires raging through eastern Russia have destroyed nearly an entire village in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, the Russian emergency situations ministry said on Thursday.

10.   The Russian team involved in the project is from the emergencies situations ministry, and includes four sappers, or combat engineers.