In July, Alexander Uss, governor of the vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, said it was simply “pointless and maybe even harmful” to attempt to fight the wildfires that cloaked his capital city in a toxic cloud of smoke.
Bloomberg: The world’s largest forest has been on fire for months
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) looks through binoculars flanked by Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov during a short vacation on August 26, 2018 in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia.
