Updated: Thursday, 27 December, 2012 at 10:50 UTC
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A deep freeze has claimed 135 lives in Russia over the past two weeks, the Health Ministry reports. Eight people have frozen to death in the past 24 hours. More than 2,000 people have suffered from frostbite this winter, nearly half of them were hospitalized, the ministry says. Many regions suspended school classes and temporarily shut down kindergartens due to severe freezes.
[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]