The head of the Altai Republic, Andrei Turchak, announced the introduction of a high-alert regime in the region due to the morning earthquake of magnitude 6.4. The epicenter was located at a distance of 1.3 kilometers from the village of Beltir.
Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the head of the Samara Region, said that almost 45,000 requests from residents of the region had been received on a direct line with Vladimir Putin.
The governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, said that in Yanino, the territory of the MPBO-2 plant was cleared of solid municipal waste products.