MOSCOW. Jan 30 (Interfax) - Schools, administrative buildings, and medical institutions are being evacuated in several regions in northwestern Russia following bomb threats.
Several institutions in the Arkhangelsk region have received emails with bomb threats, the press service of the regional branch of the Federal Security Service told Interfax on Wednesday.
According to reports on social media, classes have been suspended at two schools, and the Arkhangelsk Regional Hospital, several kindergartens, and the Central Post Office are being checked.
A source with Murmansk emergency services told Interfax that the city administration had also received a bomb threat.
Bomb threats received in the Vologda region are being looked into, the regional police and administration told Interfax.
Schools are being evacuated in the Vologda region, according to reports on social media.
Karelia Deputy Education Minister Tatyana Vasilyeva said that schools in the Prionezhsky district received bomb threats on the phone on Wednesday. "We are looking into this information," Vasilyeva said.
An informed source told Interfax about the evacuation of the Petrozavodsk city administration's building. The staff was accommodated at the nearby Civil Registration Office.
The press service of the Pskov regional administration told Interfax that classes were suspended at all schools of Pskov on Wednesday morning. "None of the bomb threat has proven to be real," it said.
All schools in Veliky Novgorod were closed on Wednesday because of bomb threats.
The Astrakhan police are searching several schools for bombs that the Astrakhan regional branch of the Interior Ministry was warned about by email on Wednesday, an informed source told Interfax.
Several hospitals in Astrakhan are being checked, as well, the source said.
The House of the Kaluga Regional Government, which accommodates several regional ministries, has been evacuated, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The Ivanovo police are looking into bomb reports received by schools and the regional clinical hospital, and evacuations are underway, an informed source told Interfax.
Bomb threats were received by email by several schools and the regional clinical hospital on Wednesday morning, the source said.
More bomb threats were emailed to schools, hospitals, and other social institutions in the Krasnodar Territory on Wednesday, an informed source told Interfax.
The information attack "is identical to ones seen earlier in cities of Siberia and the Far East," the source said.