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Fire in Russia - Offical announce of BudgetMoscow
There is no fire in Moscow. Though you can feel the smell of fire and slightly smog. The situation is not dangerious and kept controlled.
BBC report:
Peat bog fires outside Moscow have shrouded the capital in smog for several days. Doctors say the elderly and toddlers should wear gauze masks outdoors.
Elena Lezina, an expert at the Moscow state agency that monitors air quality, said pollution in the capital had surged four to 10 times above safe levels on Wednesday morning.
More famous for its bitterly cold winters, the country's European part normally enjoys short, warm summers.
However, this July was the hottest month on record, with Moscow, which sees an average high of 23C in the summer months, sweltering in 37.8C last Thursday.Moscow’s museums get set to open all hours
From cutting-edge music to retro computer games, Moscow's museums are shaking off their ‘dry-as-dust' image and partying through the night this weekend.
The annual "Night at the Museum" event is back, and this year's edition is bigger than ever, with more than 100 venues opening their doors into the early hours of the morning - and removing admission charges for the occasion.
And some are going one step further, bringing their displays to life with a wide range of special events to tempt the city's clubbers into culture vultures.
So many events can be bewildering, so to help out The Moscow News has picked out its top 10 museums for Saturday night's special shows. Read moreMoscow cops see red over blue protest
The fallout from the so-called "migalki" scandal continued this week, after participants of a public excursion aimed at highlighting the illegal use of flashing lights on the roads were detained on Manezh Square.
Activists who protest the use of flashing lights - commonly referred to as "migalki" - on the cars of the rich and powerful, have adopted the blue bucket as the symbol of their cause, but not everyone is thrilled by their approach. Riot police demanded that a member of an awareness-raising excursion remove a blue bucket from his bicycle helmet on Manezh Square this Wednesday, according to Interfax. After the request was denied, participants were detained.
No less than 20 OMON riot police officers were on hand to break up the excursion, Interfax reported. For their part, organisers insist that they were doing nothing more than taking a peaceful walk around the city center, did shout slogans and therefore did not require government permission.
"We were not provoking anyone, we were merely exercising our rights," Andrei Kondabarov, a coordinator with the Moscow chapter of the Russian Car Owners Federation, told The Moscow News. "Alexei Dozorov, the head of the Moscow Commission for Drivers' Rights, was detained first. I approached the colonel in charge to find out his last name and find out why this was happening. He obviously didn't like that, because he had me detained as well."Read more