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A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet caught on fire and crashed into a lake while conducting a training flight in the country’s northern Murmansk region on Wednesday.

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A Russian fighter jet has crashed into a lake after bursting into flames during a training exercise, according to Russian state media. The MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the northern Murmansk ...

Russian explorers plunged to the bed of the world's deepest lake on Tuesday in a show of Moscow's resurgent scientific ambitions, but had to withdraw a claim to have set a new record.

Russian ecologists have condemned a plan by authorities to allow a higher amount of toxic waste material to be dumped into Lake Baikal, which is already facing an environmental crisis.