The water level in the flood-stricken south-western Russian city of Orenburg rose another 9 centimetres overnight to a record high, the regional head said on Saturday. “In the early morning, the Ural River near Orenburg reached the 11.71-metre mark,” Governor Denis Pasler wrote on Telegram. Another 800 houses and 1,800 garden plots were flooded over the last 24 hours, the authorities said. In total, more than 3,000 houses in the city were underwater and thousands of people have had to leave their homes. However, while the situation remained tense, it showed no deterioration over the past four …