The flood situation in Russia’s southern Orenburg region remains tense as authorities try to provide relief to residents whose homes have been affected by the high water. The Orenburg region was the worst impacted, with more than 10,000 houses under water after the Ural River overflowed its banks and several dams bursts near the city of Orsk starting last week, the authorities said on Monday. More than 6,100 people have had to be taken to safety; 2,000 of them in Orsk. Large parts of the city, which has 200,000 inhabitants, including its entire historic centre, were flooded, the Kommersant new…