of smoke and smog and how they couldn't see of their problems breathing there's also a petition circulating online which has garnered over a 1000000 signatures right now which is calling for a state of emergency to be called across the entire region where the fires are raging and not just across a few regions which is currently the case now there is some debate about wildfires forest fires in general not just in russia but internationally and here in russia as well these fires rage every year and according to russian law actually russian authorities can ignore blazes that are too far away and so-called control zones which are uninhabited they aren't obliged to put those out and also if the cost of fighting the fires actually exceeds the damage that they could do russian authorities are also not obliged by law to put those fires out release is