New York Times: Russian officials call the ongoing heat wave the worst the country has seen in a millennium. “We have an ‘archive` of abnormal weather situations stretching over 1,000 years. It is possible to say there was nothing similar to this on the territory of Russia during the last 1,000 years in regard to the heat,” the head of the Russian Meteorological Center says. [Ria Novosti] The death rate in Moscow doubles due to heat and smog. [Agence France-Presse] A shortage of water …