Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano in Eurasia, situated on Kamchatka, is emitting ash columns upward to a kilometer. The question is, shall we await a repetition of the events tied with Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland, which paralyzed air services in Europe in spring 2010.

James Cameron, producer of Titanic and Avatar is celebrating his 56th birthday on the lake of Baikal. The filmmaker has made a dive into the waters of the world-deepest freshwater lake on the MIR deep-diving vehicle.

The wild fire appeared two days ago in the northern part on Mordovia National Nature Reserve, next to the city of Sarov (Republic of Mordovia), where the Federal Nuclaer Centre is situated, has increased. Three teams of fire-fighters are drawn to the reserve for suppression the fire, which can threaten the nuclear centre.

A unique paleontological exhibition opens soon in the city of Perm, after which one of geological periods was called. The playground for exhibition is a railway station. Among the exponates is a mammoth found in 1927 in Perm Territory. The mammoth has been a symbol of Perm museum of local history for 60 years.

Waters of Sungari River (China) containing toxic waste have reached the Russian territory. Barrels with toxic (and explosive as well) substances were swept away into the river by floodwaters from factory.

Pungents smoke from wild fires which covered Central Russia and caused problems in the work of Moscow airports and different institutuions like USA Consulate, outbreak of lunge troubles and even deaths, is going to leave the Russian capital. Most fires are localized and put out.

In Moscow, the concentration of carbon monoxide in the air exceeds the maximum admissible level in 5 times.

The 15th for this summer temperature record was beaten today, on the August, 4, in Moscow. The temperature fixed by Moscow Central Weather Station was 34, 3 degrees Celsius, and that is 0,3 degrees warmer than it was on the same date in 1880.

About 130 persons will spend 2 weeks in hospitals in Omsk as anthrax suspects. 6 of them can be ill, others were in contact with the ill persons, one of whom is dead.

Enormous heat wave in the central Russia has caused plenty of forest and peat-log fires in Moscow Region, which are burning in the close vicinity of the capital. The yellow-grey smoke has filled the all the city, decreasing visibility and making breathing dangerous for health.