Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the government has managed to overcome the wildfire crisis and has valuable lessons to learn from the experience.
"Russia has gained control and on the whole I think that the situation has normalized," Medvedev said. "We have serious lessons to learn from what has happened."
The president has lifted the state of emergency in six of the seven Russian regions hit hardest by the worst wildfires in decades.
A state of emergency was announced in the Mordovia, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Vladimir, Voronezh and Mari El regions on August 2.
Only the Ryazan region remains under emergency regime.
Hundreds of wildfires sparked by a record-breaking heat wave have been burning across central Russia for the past four weeks, causing some 12 billion rubles ($394 million) in damage, according to the Emergencies Ministry.
YEREVAN, August 20 (RIA Novosti)
