TOPSHOTS A woman stands inside a flooded house in the village of Krasnaya Rechka near Khabarovsk in Russia's Far Eastern Amur region, on August 22, 2013. A total of 297 residential buildings, including 14 apartment buildings, are flooded in Khabarovsk area, officials said. The floodwaters damaged property, infrastructure and crops, displaced tens of thousands and raised fresh questions about the Russian government's readiness to handle natural disasters. Heavy rains pounding Khabarovsk, a Far Eastern city located near the Chinese border, since July have swelled the local Amur River to nearly seven metres -- a level unseen since monitoring of the area began in 1895. AFP PHOTO/IGOR CHURAKOV