As stated by the Nasa Earth Observatory, on June 18, 2012,  a total of 198 wildfires burned across Russia and had charred an area that covered 8,330 hectares. Also RT News announced that the state of emergency was declared in parts of Siberia:

A state of emergency has been declared in several eastern regions, where
hundreds of wildfires are now raging.

The wildfires cover an 8,331-hectare area in total, according to the
Siberian Federal District Forestry Department. Around 1,600 people and
42 planes are now fighting the fires.

According to Greenpeace, the situation is worse now than at the same
time in the summer of 2010, when Russia was devastated by forest fires.