AFP:  Russia - Wildfires in Russia in 2011 are three times more extensive than during the same period last year, when the country was scorched by its worst summer blazes of the modern era, a ministry said Tuesday.  Fires in Russia have destroyed some 618,000 hectares (~1.5 million acres) so far this year, an area much greater than the 215,000 hectares destroyed last year, with the increases especially impacting Siberia, the emergency ministry said.  On Tuesday, fires ravaged the Krasnoyarsk ...
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