In Moscow, the media reports say exasperated air passengers stranded after freezing rain disrupted flights have staged protests inside at least one Moscow airport. The passengers occupied baggage inspection areas at Sheremetyevo, northwest of the Russian capital. The rain, which immediately became ice on the ground, led to cancellations of 200 flights and caused power failures which shut a second airport for hours. More than four lakh people in the Moscow area were left without electricity. The outage was caused by tree branches touching power lines loaded down with ice. Bad weather also turned many streets in the city into ice rinks with power supplies to trams and trolley buses damaged and huge traffic jams.Interfax news agency said 1350 people were taken to hospital in the Moscow area with ice-related injuries while 27 were injured by falling trees weighed down by ice.The city's other main airport, Domodedovo remained shut for more than 10 hours on Sunday after the power supply was cut off.The Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu to do everything possible to ease the situation in the airports and transport