In the near future there will be no global emergencies that could lead to the “ end of the world,” said Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov. He recalled that methods for monitoring the state of the planet prove that “ global disasters occur approximately once every 10-15 million years.” According to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, “ the last serious cataclysms that influenced the development of earthly civilization happened several hundred years ago.” “ Therefore, natural threats can be expected in the near future. But they will not be global,” Puchkov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Already, humanity is struggling with snowfalls, icing, tornadoes, floods and accidents, which will certainly happen in the future, the minister said. He recommended preparing for such incidents so that the consequences could be minimized.

On November 29, three State Duma deputies asked federal channels to refuse to cover the topic of the end of the world, which, according to one version, will come on December 21, 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends. An open letter to the media was signed by Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Science and High Technologies Mikhail Degtyarev ( LDPR), Chairman of the Committee on Science, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Valery Chereshnev ( A Just Russia) and Deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Dmitry Novikov . Deputies believe that exaggerating the topic of the end of the world provokes citizens to inappropriate actions and has a bad effect on their physical and emotional state.

Ministry of Emergency Situations: The world will not end in December