Siberia’s air highly polluted

The highest levels of air pollution in Russia are in the industrial regions of the Urals and Western Siberia, Yury Tsaturov, first deputy head of the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology an Environmental Monitoring, told a recent news conference in Moscow.

In more than 30 Russian cities, air pollution levels exceeded the highest acceptable levels by 400 per cent. About 20,000 people die from poor environmental conditions each year, Tsaturov said.