Severe floods continue to inundate parts of Russia

STORY: Parts of Russia including the Tyumen region, Orenburg region, and the city of Orsk have been flooded.In the city of Kurgan, the region's administrative center, power was cut off, affecting about 1,500 residents, local officials said late on Monday.Residents of Ishim, a town of 65,000 people in the Tyumen region in southwestern Siberia, bordering Kazakhstan, were asked early on Tuesday to urgently evacuate because of a critical rise in the water level in the Ishim River that flows through