Moscow — Warm spring temperatures have unleashed torrents on parts of western Russia, where thawing ice and melting mountain snow are swelling some of Europe's biggest rivers and inundating ...

Swiftly melting snow triggered the worst recorded flooding in Russia’s Ural Mountains, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes as some of Europe’s biggest rivers swelled to bursting point.

But on this frozen ground, at least, American military cooperation and the perception of Russia as a widening threat appeared unchanged. In Finland, which fought the Soviet Union during World War ...