Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits (PHOTOS) [1]

RT.com - 12/19/12

RIA Novosti / Aleksey Malgavko

Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 have been hospitalized.

­The country has not witnessed such a long cold spell since 1938, meteorologists said, with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower than the seasonal norm all over Russia.

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