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mickk
08-07-2010, 09:03 PM
On BBC news. Someones for the high jump.

Medvedev fired the chief of Russia's naval aviation and at least seven high-ranking military officials after fires burned at least half of the buildings at a military base near Moscow. Russian media said up to 200 naval aircraft may have been destroyed.

"If something similar happens in other places, in other agencies, I'll do exactly the same thing, with no sympathy," Medvedev said at a security council meeting Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/08/05/1353551/thick-smog-from-raging-wildfires.html#ixzz0vyKAdpCv