A storm is advancing towards Moscow. City authorities try to protect energy and water supply structures and their other vital facilities. Moscow mayor Luzhkov appealed to residents of Moscow not to go out, not to stay under the trees and billboards and not to put cars before them.
Meanwhile, Russian media outlets began to block information about fires.
Smog intensified on Mondya in Moscow. There is little air to breathe, as before, in many parts of Moscow, especially in south-eastern, south-western, southern and eastern districts of the damned imperial capital.
Visibility in Moscow decreased to 300 meters. Drivers, moving in particularly difficult areas, switch on emergency lightings. Smoke from wildfires increased in Moscow on Sunday night. Heatwave remains in Moscow, the Chenese agency Xinhua reports from Moscow. Russian media outlets didn't report anything on the subject due to censorship introduced on Sunday night.
On Sunday night, Russian media began to block information about fires - about all fires, not just radioactive ones. Although the fires do not disappeared, reports about them are very stingy, and their volume makes maximum 3% of what Russians reported about their fires and smog in all the previous days.
Russian Far East is also burning in hellish fires. 14 wildfires in the area of 750.2 hectares were registered only on August 15. The fires are also raging in Magadan region - 3 fires on the area of active burning of 2.2 ha, and in Chukotka - 7 fires in the area of active burning of 33,8 ha. Since the beginning of the arson season of 2010, according to lower data of Russian invaders, 962 natural fires rage in the total area of 222, 003.5 ha emerged.
6 new fires emerged over the weekend also in the Sakhalin region on Russian-occupied Japanese territories.
Meschersky peatlands in the Moscow region are continuing to burn in the vast area and there is also a huge smoke. Large fires appeared on dried, developed and abandoned peat land of "Radovitsky moh" in Lukhovitsy, Yegorievsk and Shatura districts of Moscow region.
In the morning of August 15, hotbeds of burning and smoldering peat were observed in this peatbog in an area of about 2.5 thousand hectares. This estimate is rather too low than too high, because MODIS satellite pictures do not always allow to identify underground peat fires and fires with strong smoke.
Moreover, a strong peat fire continue to burn in Meshcherskaya lowlands in Vladimir region(burning and smoldering of peat is observed in the area of about six thousand hectares).
11 hotbeds of natural fires in the total area of 3.2 thousand hectares were registered by the KGB junta of Russia in the Ryazan region on August 15.
Situation continues to be deteriorating for the ruling KGB junta in Ryazan, Klepikovsky and Ermishinsky districts.
According to media outlets, hurricanes in the north-western of Russia, even according to lower official figures, left without electricity 1490 settlements with about 94.000 Russian residents.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
