Berel Lazar in European Jewish Press Lazar, the chief rabbi, called on all Jews, no matter how busy they were, to go to synagogue not only "to express solidarity with [their] brothers in Khabarovsk and Astrakhan, but above all to ask God together to put reason into the minds of those...
Sergei Shoigu in Advertiser Adelaide The governor of the first affected region, Sergei Muzhetsky, said residents there were safe "because we do not use water from the Amur. The problems will mainly be in Khabarovsk."