Smog Jitters Start as the First Fires Break Out
10 May 2011 | Issue 4633
As warm weather revives memories of the smog that choked the capital last summer, the Emergency Situations Ministry has offered assurances that it has control over the source of the pollution — burning peat bogs and forests in the Moscow region.
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