Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Minister for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Natural Disaster Relief Alexander Kurenkov and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov.
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Russia said on Thursday that unprecedented flooding had created "difficult" conditions and another major river had burst its banks, submerging roads and villages in the Siberian region of Tomsk.Three villages in the Tomsk region 3,000 kilometres (1,850 miles) east of Moscow were cut off from the regional capital when rising waters in the river Tom flooded roads, villages and several houses, state media cited local officials as saying.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said he had held a conversation on Wednesday with the heads of the Russian Volga republic of Tatarstan, North Ossetia in the North Caucasus and the Omsk Region in Siberia and that an agreement had been reach to accommodate children in those regions