"In standard situations, the compound that was used on people does not act as aggressively as it turned out to do," said Andrei Seltsovsky, Moscow's chief physician. "But it was used on people who ...

There were twice the usual number of bodies in the city's morgues, Andrei Seltsovsky told reporters. Meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared around a nuclear reprocessing plant in the ...

Today, we are around 700," Andrei Seltsovsky, Moscow's health department chief, told a city government meeting. Russia's worst drought in decades has spooked world grain markets, driving wheat ...

SEVERAL thousand Muscovites are thought to have died in July alone from this year’s unprecedented heatwave and August could add more fatalities, a Russian scientist said yesterday.

Moscow, Russia (CNN)-- The mortality rate in Moscow, Russia, has "doubled recently" because of an extended streak of heat and smog, Andrei Seltsovsky, the head of the city health department ...

Only one of those held for three days by Chechen rebels died of gunshot wounds, said Andrei Seltsovsky, chairman of the health committee of the city of Moscow. The statement came as the Russian ...

After denying statements from morgue workers and doctors last week that the morgues were filling, the health official, Andrei Seltsovsky, did an about-face. Speaking at a City Council meeting that ...

There were twice the usual number of bodies in the city's morgues, Andrei Seltsovsky told reporters. Meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared around a nuclear reprocessing plant in the ...

There were twice the usual number of bodies in the city's morgues, Andrei Seltsovsky told reporters. Richard Galpin reports.

Amnesty International spokeswoman, told the BBC that the group wanted to determine whether the use of gas "was the proportionate response and within the law" to end the hostage crisis. Moscow's chief ...

The official, Alexander Seltsovsky, did not give a specific time frame or number of deaths, but indicated heat and pollution were the cause of the increase, according to the report. "Mortality in ...

The head Moscow city doctor, Andrei Seltsovsky, said the captives died after Russian security forces used a gas to incapacitate Chechen gunmen during a raid on the theater where the hostages were ...