Russian nightclub fire

PERM, Russia - President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single exit.

PERM, Russia - President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes Saturday after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 106 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single exit.

PERM, Russia - A blaze sparked by onstage fireworks tore through a nightclub ceiling covered in decorative twigs and plastic sheeting early Saturday, killing at least 109 people and critically injuring about 90 in Russia's deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union, witnesses and officials said.