On August 5, the defense managed to cancel the decision to prosecute an 18-year-old resident of Tyva for disobeying the police. And yesterday it became known that he was released, human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov said. On March 13, the then minor teenager was detained after he accompanied a girl home. The police claimed that he looked like a man who was wanted in connection with the theft of a phone, tried to escape and refused to enter the station.

The authorities did not allocate the required amount of money for books. There are not enough textbooks for tenth grades in schools in the Irkutsk district. The mother of one of the tenth graders, Inga Korneva, spoke about this in Governor Kobzev’s chat. According to her, out of the required 16 textbooks, the student was given only four - on the Russian language, algebra and two books on geometry.

The Investigative Committee of the Moscow Region refused to initiate a criminal case after the beating of Maria Tsydenova . She published a letter from the department: it said that the actions of the police allegedly did not constitute a crime. In April, the head of the Podolsk police department apologized to Tsydenova for the actions of her subordinates. But they did not suffer any real responsibility, other than disciplinary sanctions.

Between sessions, he tried to hide from court. A court in Yakutsk sentenced former participant in the war with Ukraine Alexander Stepanov, nicknamed “Nightmare,” to seven years in a special regime colony. He was found guilty of hooliganism, theft, illegal weapons trafficking and causing bodily harm. The people of Baikal talked about the crimes of the “Nightmare”. In July 2022, he broke a bar patron's jaw.

The mother asks to support her with letters and parcels. Translator Svetlana Savelyeva was taken to the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction from the punishment cell of Moscow pre-trial detention center-6. She had been there since July intermittently. The meeting was protracted, Svetlana’s mother told LB. The next hearing was scheduled for September 14. The Irkutsk woman has been in custody since the fall of 2024.

How life works in the most sparsely populated part of Lake Baikal and why go there The north of Baikal is the most sparsely populated part of the lake. Beyond Severobaikalsk and Nizhneangarsk, cities, roads and communications quickly end, and tens of kilometers of taiga and coast remain between the settlements. Getting there is far and difficult.

The Irkutsk Regional Court has completed its consideration of the appeal against the verdict of the former head of the pre-trial detention center-1 of Irkutsk, Igor Mokeev, and his deputy, Anton Samara. The judge did not release them, increasing the punishment: Mokeev was stripped of the rank of colonel, and Samara was stripped of the rank of lieutenant colonel. Human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov reported this.

The detention of Kamil Aliyev was reported by large anti-migrant channels, which often receive leaks from security forces. In them, the Irkutsk resident is mistakenly called an “Azerbaijani blogger.” One of the channels claims that administrative cases have been opened against him. There is no official information about the detention of the pranker yet. Along with the news, the channels posted a video of Aliyev’s apology. “Yes, I apologize to the community who I caused inconvenience.

“First Department”* invites lawyers in the Irkutsk region and Trans-Baikal Territory who are ready to work in modern “political” cases to cooperate. “We have more than 500 cases in progress - administrative, criminal and civil. We defend those who are unfairly accused of “treason”, “espionage”, “confidential cooperation with foreigners”, we challenge the radioactive statuses of “foreign agents”, “undesirables”, “extremist” and “terrorist” organizations,” human rights activists said .

The media today published pictures of smoky Yakutsk. According to the regional Ministry of Ecology, smoke reached the city from forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the border with Yakutia, as well as from fires in the Mirninsky and Oleneksky regions of the republic. In Yakutia, forests are burning in remote and hard-to-reach areas, the ministry said. Now they continue to extinguish them.

Now he is being threatened. 28-year-old blogger from Irkutsk Kamil Aliev posts provocative videos with military personnel on social networks. In one video, the blogger approaches a man in military uniform and silently films him. He does not answer questions about why he does this. In another video, he approaches a group of military men on the street and asks: “What’s up guys, how’s your service?” When asked to turn off the camera, he responds negatively.

A court in Irkutsk sentenced a 20-year-old resident of Nizhneudinsk to 12 years in prison on charges of sabotage and preparation for sabotage. The verdict was handed down on August 6. According to the court, in February 2026, the convict broke into the territory of the base station and set fire to the climate control cabinet with equipment. He did this, according to the prosecutor’s office, for money that he received “in one of the messengers” from an unknown person.

Since early morning there has been heavy rain in the city, and utility and road services have been put on high alert. Because of the rain, tram tracks were flooded, and speed was limited in some areas. Because of this, trams arrive late. Water on the roadway reaches the wheel arches of cars. In the Oktyabrsky district, a car fell into the soggy ground. In the most difficult areas, water is pumped out using vacuum machines and motor pumps.

Ulan-Ude resident Oleg Rodnin was sentenced to 340 hours of compulsory labor for showing the middle finger to a military monument. He was found guilty of hooliganism and insulting the memory of defenders of the Fatherland. On May 1, Rodnin drove by a monument to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, opened the window slightly, shouted the words: “Glory to Ukraine!” and showed his middle finger towards the monument and the Youth Army soldiers who stood guard near it.

The Shelekhovsky court imposed such a fine on a 35-year-old resident of the village of Chistye Klyuchi. She was found guilty of damaging the Defenders of the Fatherland Memorial. In December last year, a village woman allegedly tore off a leaf at night from the “Crane” memorial, where photographs of the fallen participants in the war in Ukraine were hung.