Russia's War on Environmental NGOs Robs Country of Conservat

Residents of the village of Sosva have been losing their homes to forest fires for years.  In the most recent major incident in April, a wildfire destroyed 130 houses, killed two individuals and left 659 people homeless in this village in the Sverdlovsk region.

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