INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Nearly 600,000 people in southern Russia have been left without electricity amid an abnormal heat wave that led to a spike in energy
consumption, the Energy Ministry said Tuesday.The power cuts have affected the Rostov region (324,000 people affected), the Krasnodar region
also been hit by high temperatures over the past week.Last week, temperatures in the Russian capital hit 32.5 C, beating the record set in
1917, said the Rosgidromet weather center.
