PTR - June 02, 2014

Several people have reportedly died amid heavy flooding in Siberia - with tens of thousands displaced from their homes; A new study finds that almost half of Russians see themselves as middle class - though as the report notes, the understanding of that social category here is very different from in the West; And the founder of Russia's version of Facebook is suing his business partners in connection with his new project - the Skype-rival, Telegram.