It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“The fact that you need to deal with forest is unconditional. For comparison: in the Soviet Union there were 85 thousand foresters, and today - 23 thousand. We have to increase this standard, that's for sure, because the owner should appear in the forest, ”he said during a meeting with students in Khanty Mansiysk.
At the same time, the Minister added that this year forest fires were registered at the rate of 1 million hectares less than in the past, given the controlled forest areas.
On August 21, Mikhail Klinov, Acting Head of the Federal Forestry Agency, announced the stabilization of forest fires throughout Russia.
On August 8, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to allocate about 6 billion rubles to extinguish forest fires in a number of regions.
On August 1, the Ministry for Emergencies called the cause of the spread of fires in Siberia.