A rally was held in Ulan-Ude for the return of Buryatia to the Siberian Federal District

In Ulan-Ude, a disagreed rally was held by the Buryatian Khural building for the return of the region to the Siberian Federal District, as well as for a complete ban on cutting trees along the shores of Lake Baikal. It is reported by Taiga.info.

The action was attended by several dozen people.

“The Baikal natural territory should remain with the indigenous inhabitants of the republic,” one of the demonstrators said at the rally. “Transfer to the Far Eastern Federal District is intended for the inhabitants of China to come here without a visa and rent the territory.”

The police detained and took the national activist Erdem Gomboev to their bus, who led the live broadcast of the rally on Facebook. Nevertheless, he was soon released.

Alexei Fishev, spokeswoman for the head of Buryatia Alexei Tsydenov, came to the demonstrators. He invited them to a meeting. However, when the protesters entered the hall, the police were waiting for them there. On some, in the same place, on the spot, protocols were drawn up on the "rally" article of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The papers were issued in the presence of the regional ombudsman Yulia Zhambalova.

The decree on the transfer of Buryatia, as well as the Trans -Baikal Territory from the Siberian District to the Far Eastern , Vladimir Putin signed on November 3 . The meaning of such a measure in the decree was not explained.

Residents of Buryatia created two petitions against the transfer of the region as part of the FER. They were signed in total more than 11 thousand people. Tsydenov called the initiators of one of them "fakes", the task of which is to destabilize the situation. However, the author of the document Vladimir Sevryuk answered the official that he was a real person, and left his phone with a proposal to call and make sure that.