Fires are spreading fast across vast Siberian forests in a reminder of last year's worst drought on record which killed dozens of people and forced Russia to suspend grain exports.
The Emergency Ministry said on Sunday on its web site www.mchs.gov.ru [2] that around 100,000 hectares of forestry was caught up in fires, mainly in the Far East as well as in the oil-rich Siberian province of Khanty-Man
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/forest-fires-rage-russias-far-east-siberia
[2] http://www.mchs.gov.ru
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vladimir-soldatkin
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/russia
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-fires
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drought
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
