Il Cremlino

Moscow’s Kremlin, covered by heavy smog in the centre of Moscow, Russia 27 July 2010. Media reports state that Muscovites are struggling to breathe the capital is blanketed in smoke as a record-setting heatwave that that has already ruined crops caused fires that set the area around the capital ablaze. The Russian Emergency Ministry said 34 peat fires and 26 forest fires were blazing on 27 July 2010 in the area surrounding Moscow, covering 59 hectares.
(Ansa/EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY)