Doggedly, Mrs Yudina continued printing it in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 320 kilometres (200 miles) away, and copies of the newspaper were brought into Kalmykia by car.
Speaking on Russian state television, the consul-general in Milan, Alexei Parmonov, named the dead as Denis Kravchenko, Irina Kravchenko, Vyacheslav Sleptsov, Yulia Yudina, Lyudmila Yudina and Rafilya Pshenichnaya, AP reports.