According to media reports, the death rate in Russian capital has risen by 50 percent in July. The situation may become even more unhappy for the Russians this month. Now, Muscovites are dying not only from the heatwave, but also because of thick smoke that has blanketed the city.
4 people died a day before in the center of Moscow in conditions of poor visibility. All of them were victims of traffic incidents.
Meanwhile, a real buzz is in tourist agencies of the city. Hoping to leave the metropolis, where there is literally nothing to breathe, Muscovites are buying off last vouchers from travel agencies. They are already ready to go "anywhere".
Travel agency managers have not seen for many years such a demand, even in August. "Holidays" in Croatia, Montenegro and Bulgaria have been sold until mid-September. Prices for tours to Turkey went up sharply.
Representatives of diplomatic missions are also fleeing from Moscow. Germany closed its embassy and consular department in Russian capital because of smoke from fires in forests and peat bogs. Austria, Poland and Canada are also withdrawing their diplomats from Moscow. Embassy and consulate of Ukraine is still working as before. All the staff was moved to rooms with air conditioners.
"The situation with smoke and carbon monoxide in Moscow is like to sleep in a farmhouse with stove damper closed and smoldering wood inside", a coordinator at the World Wildlife Fund in Russia Shmatkov said. According to him, animals and birds are fleeing from forests around Moscow. Because of large-scale fires, they simply have nothing to eat and drink.
"Tough situation" with gauze bandages was reported in Moscow pharmacies. They are being grabbed as during the "epidemic" of fraudulent "swine flu". Escaping from smoke and smog is impossible even in Moscow subway.
The Austrian TV in its turn reported that the strongest smog in recent years was registered in Moscow on Saturday. Sun is not visible. A bright spot on the background of smog is in the sky instead of it. "Suppressions of fires" are ineffective. The more you extinguish them, the more they flare up.
The content of ozone, formaldehyde, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen sulfide, etc. overran all permissible levels in the Moscow air on Saturday. Football competitions are cancelled. The government ordered companies to reduce production and emissions by at least 40%. Officials are allowed not to go to work. Working hours are reduced in many firms.
The area of fires on Saturday morning increased from 179.000 to 186.000 hectares. Authorities forced 160.000 uncomplaining and obedient Russian soldiers to extinguish fires, although it is not their business but that of firefighters.
Non-governmental organizations laugh at stupid lies by the Russian authorities, when they talk about only 52 reportedly killed Russians in fires.
According to estimates, distributed by the authorities, the death rate in Russia has increased by 50%. Embassies are being closed. US, Britain and France urged its citizens not to travel to Russia.
There are long lines of foreigners and locals fleeing from Russia in the airports. It is not so simple to escaping from Moscow. Many flights were canceled on Saturday because of the smog, particularly to Innsbruck, Austria, the TV reports.
Meanwhile, on the afternoon of August 7, Russians reported disappointing news from Italian weather forecasters for Russia (in Russia itself, such politically incorrect weather forecasts are not allowed) that "decrease in temperature in Russia is not expected in the next 7-10 days". In this regard, the Italian Foreign Ministry recommends Italians "not to go to Russia if it is not absolutely necessary".
Reports on fires, which Russians has been unsuccessfully trying to extinguish more than a month already, look like military reports, in Russia's war against the will of Allah. Moscow's "Vesti" TV for example, writes about Russian fires like this:
"Fire extinguishing forces are being formed and regrouped in Moscow suburbs. Resources are being moved from less affected regions into more complicated parts of Russia, particularly, into the Moscow region.
In Moscow suburbs, the forces will be increased by 1,000 persons and 200 vehicles. Growth of fires occurs on weekends (people's arsonists have more time - KC). The number of fires in Moscow region doubled from Friday to Saturday. It is explained primarily due to human factor. Extinguishing of peatbog fires will be conducted at night, starting from August 7, before that they were only guarded (from people's arsonists - KC) at nights".
Destruction of Russian settlements in the Muslim country Obran Osh-Ashli (Russian renamed it into "Nizhny Novgorod region") is going smoothly and reliably. Everything is being destroyed. Here, for example, id a Russian colonialists report a small area:
"Since July 30, 2010, 7 villages were destroyed by forest fires in Vyksunsky area: village Shernavka (9 houses, 20 people, fire destroyed 8 houses, where 20 people, 8 families, lived); village Tamboles (175 houses , 308 people: fire destroyed 35 houses, where 57 people, 21 families, lived), village Verkhnyaya Vereya (341 houses, 628 people, fire destroyed 338 homes, where 628 people lived); village Borkovka (475 houses, 1025 people: fire destroyed 120 homes, where 358 residents, 120 households, lived), village Red Baken (38 houses, fire destroyed all 38 houses), village Semilovo (91 houses, fire destroyed 16 houses, where 75 people were lived), village Rozhnovsky (10 houses, all destroyed by fire).
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
