A fire at a Moscow library housing some valuable U.N. documents and rare ancient Slavic texts, caused significant damage, reports The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/1vnZH5j)
More than 200 firefighters fought to contain the fire that broke out Friday night in the library — one of Russia’s largest libraries — at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, according to an emergency ministry statement
Some 15% of the over 10 million books and periodicals housed there were likely damaged, head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov told Russian state television. It caused “a great loss to science,” Mr. Fortov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying. His deputy Vladimir Ivanov, described it as a “catastrophe,” Interfax reported Saturday.
