OREANDA-NEWS. August 04, 2010. Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting to draft and approve additional fire safety measures for strategic facilities.

In particular, the President gave the Government two days to draw up a new list of potentially dangerous sites.

Mr Medvedev also reprimanded Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, commander of Russia’s naval forces, and his first deputy, Admiral Alexander Tatarinov, for incompetence, and fired a number of senior Defence Ministry officials over the fire at a naval base in Moscow Region’s Kolomna District.

The situation with wild fires in Russia remains difficult. The fires have killed several dozen people and left several thousand homeless.