She was detained by security forces. At the beginning of October, a video filmed in Irkutsk, in which an unknown woman insults a resident of Buryatia, went viral online. The Buryat woman began filming what was happening after the Irkutsk woman defiantly spat on the hood of her car. The cause of the aggression was the license plate number of the car with the code of Buryatia.

The legendary American TV series Scrubs returned to screens 16 years after the finale. It aired from 2001 to 2010 and became one of the most famous medical shows. A native of Yakutsk, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, starred in one of the episodes of the new season. The scene in which she participated takes place in a hospital cafe.

The veterinary service told IrCity journalists that it would not respond to a request for information about how many animals were seized from farmers in the Irkutsk region due to “dermatitis nodosa” - this information is supposedly intended for official use only. 66 people received compensation for the seizure, and the total amount of payments was more than 40 million rubles. Per kilogram of live weight, farmers were paid from 60 to 92 rubles, depending on the type of animal.

Siberian Express drew attention to the contract with the Sipas Logistics company in the amount of 2.6 million rubles on the government procurement website. The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute used this money to purchase two isolated boxes for patients at the National Center for Zoonotic Infections in Mongolia. Also, the Federal Research Institute "Microbe" is accepting applications for the supply of 500 protective overalls for the Republican Center for Plague Prevention of Uzbekistan.

58-year-old Larisa Mikhailova was informed about the extension of her sentence by her associates from the Agrarian Council. According to them, during the hearing, the listeners were removed from the courtroom at the request of the investigator. Mikhailova is a representative of the Agrarian Council.

Mediazona* learned about the death of 45-year-old Sergei Chukmasov from Mogochi, Trans-Baikal Territory. In the spring, he enlisted at the front after being sentenced for burning a man alive. In the summer of 2023, Chukmasov, together with Roman Lonshakov and Alexander Medvedkov, took their acquaintance to a cemetery in Mogocha, where one of them worked as a grave digger. They threw the victim into a grave, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire, and then covered it with earth.

Shoigu helped build it. The fire started in the Ustuu-Khuree complex, in the Chaylag-Alaak tract, local media reported. Video footage from the scene shows that the roof of the building is engulfed in flames and partially destroyed. The Ministry of Emergency Situations in Tyva reported that the monastery was extinguished, but there were no casualties. According to preliminary data, the fire started in the utility room; some versions call it a short circuit.

On October 4, People of Baikal reported that quarantine restrictions had been introduced in some Irkutsk hospitals. In particular, they talked about city clinical hospitals No. 1, 3, 10 and the city Ivano-Matreninsky children's clinical hospital. Patients were not allowed to see their relatives; it was impossible to visit them except to hand over things or food. After this, pro-government Telegram channels, positioning themselves as fact-checkers, issued a “refutation” of our publications.

On October 2, the federal channel REN-TV released a number of posts on Telegram. They reported that an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute could have died from the plague, and also that almost 200 people in contact with her were hospitalized in the city. The posts were later deleted. They remain in the archive of the TGStat service ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ).

Deputy Mayor of the Shelekhovsky District Elena Sofyina, in response to the words of the US President about his readiness to help “with the pneumonia situation,” said that local authorities will handle it themselves. “The situation is under complete control: Rospotrebnadzor, the regional team and the Shelekhovsky district administration are working together.

The UN has requested information about the spread of infection from Russia. The US Embassy in Russia has published information about the spread of a particularly dangerous infection in the Irkutsk region. It talks about suspected pneumonic plague and the restrictions associated with it. “The US Embassy is aware of press reports from the Irkutsk region about suspected pneumonic plague leading to the death of a person, as well as related quarantine measures and hospital closures in Irkutsk.

An Yabloko activist and volunteer left a portrait of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya near the Trud stadium. And then I saw that one of the residents laid flowers at the people’s memorial. This was announced by the head of the Irkutsk Yabloko, Pavel Kharitonenko. “We remember everyone who paid with their freedom, and sometimes with their lives, fighting for justice and our future,” he wrote. Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed exactly 20 years ago, on Putin’s birthday.

They are looking for a suspected deserter. On the morning of October 3, Andrei and Sergei , brothers from the village of Nizhny Zhirim in the Tarbagatai region of Buryatia, were going to mow. As they turned into the field, a car honked at them from behind. The brothers returned to the road and at that moment two unknown men in masks “jumped out” at them. One of them opened the car door and pointed a gun at Sergei’s face.

Olga Mutovina became the winner of the monthly independent award “Editorial Board” - this is her fifth victory! The award was presented for the text “Mammoth for Sale” about how the residents of Yakutia extract the remains of mammoths from the permafrost - and what they do with them next. Olga worked on the text for several months. Sometimes completely unexpected details are revealed in it: did you know what a tusk just pulled out of the ground smells like? What colors does it come in?

The Court of Appeal decided that this was legal. The Irkutsk Regional Court rejected Elena Sizykh's complaint about forced relocation to an apartment with defects. She informed the editors of “People of Baikal” about this. Previously, the city court recognized the social rent agreement and the apartment acceptance certificate as valid, although Sizykh herself did not sign it.