I don't have a TV so I had no idea this was going on. Really terrible for the Russian people.....Photos........

https://englishrussia.com/index.php/2...re/#more-16771

and: https://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...wildfires.html

Fires now cover a 500 mile stretch and old uraniun or radioactive sites dust is being kicked up. Very dangerous.
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Last month, Russia endured the hottest July ever recorded since records began 130 years ago. The intense heat and drought affecting central Russia has been drying out trees and peat marshes, which have been catching fire recently, burning forests, fields and houses across a massive region. Some 500 new fires have been reported in the last 24 hours alone, and a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of emergency workers is underway to combat them. President Dmitry Medvedev has now declared a state of emergency in seven regions. To date, over 1,500 homes have been destroyed and 40 lives have been lost. as wildfires continue across over 300,000 acres.

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Aside from the terrible effects of these fires on the Russian people there has also been a large destruction of the wheatfields and a large drop in the wheat harvest.

This has meant a large reduction in wheat exports from Russia and will probably mean larger than normal increases in grain prices for a large part of the world who depend on Russian wheat.

It does not help that Pakistan has also lost their crops of wheat and corn too. I think prices are going to go up as there will be more demand from the grain producing countries.

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