Announcement of the program “PRAV?DA!” (Public television of Russia) that will be aired on July 9 at 7.30 pm

Why do forests catch fire? Are the regions prepared, and how they manage the fires that have already started? What measures do we need to prevent repetition of summer 2010? Independent experts as well as representatives of the Green Peace declare that truthful information on forest fires in Russia is being suppressed. Is it true? Who needs to conceal such information and why? How often do natural forest fires happen, and how often are they man-induced? To what consequences do they lead both for the economics and for the ecosystem?

Participants of the discussion include: Fatikh Sibagatullin – a member of the Committee of the State Duma for Natural Resources, Environment Management and Ecology, Andrey Kalinin – Head of the Federal Budgetary Establishment “Aerial Forest Fire Center”, Nail Magdeev – Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, Alexey Yaroshenko – Head of the Forest Department of the “Green Peace of Russia”, Nikolay Moiseev – Head of the Subdepartment of Economics and Management of Moscow State University of Forest, the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a merited wood grower of Russia, Vyacheslav Fedorov – Head of the information and analytical projects of the All-Russian public organization “Green patrol”, Petr Tsvetkov – Head of the laboratory of the forest pyrology of the Forest Institute named after V.N. Sukachev (Krasnoyarsk), Doctor of biological sciences.