How the peasants of Buryatia rebelled against collectivization In 1929-1932, the Soviet authorities dispossessed four million peasants. Their houses, land, livestock and property were taken away from them. And after that, half of the dispossessed people were deported to uninhabitable places, where more than 400 thousand of them died from hunger, disease and overwork. In response to dispossession, a wave of peasant uprisings swept across the country, the largest of which took place in Siberia.

In July, a military court in Chita sentenced 28-year-old Krasnokamensk native Alexei Cherepanov to seven years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of collaborating on a confidential basis with an international organization and publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet. On October 28, the Military Court of Appeal increased the sentence to 12 years in a general regime colony. Cherepanov was also banned from publishing comments online for two years.

Starting this year, money will not be allocated from the federal budget for the construction of clinics in administrative centers. This was reported today in the Irkutsk City Duma. Deputy regional governor Natalya Dikusarova called the situation a “new challenge” for the regional authorities. At the same time, Irkutsk officials discussed these restrictions of the Ministry of Health back in February of this year. The ministry suspended the design and construction of clinics until 2030.

How the former director of a rural club in Yakutia made a comedy about his work The comedy “Director” will be released in Yakutia cinemas on October 29. The film about the director of a rural club was directed by 34-year-old director Nikolai Koryakin - and during filming, he himself worked as the director of the club in his native village of Magaras in Yakutia.

Residents complained that they were desecrating the sacred cape. Suspension bridges were dismantled from Cape Sagaan-Khushun on the Baikal island of Olkhon - ten months after the court decision. The district prosecutor's office reported this. Bridges on the territory of the Sagaan-Khushun settlement appeared in 2024; their appearance was not coordinated with the monument protection service.

This may provide a new reason for blocking company services. In early October, Roskomnadzor included Microsoft and Apple in the register of information dissemination organizers (ORI), which includes owners of services that allow the exchange of messages. The Telegram channel Tech Talk drew attention to this yesterday. It is still unknown whether the companies registered voluntarily or were forced into the register.

Yesterday, October 28, a bear attacked a 61-year-old local resident in the forest of the Chunsky district of the Irkutsk region. He was saved by a 66-year-old friend who killed the animal with two shots, local media reported. After this, the victim independently reached the nearest hospital and sought medical help. He has open wounds to his arms and head and was hospitalized. Since September 18, a high alert regime has been in effect in the Irkutsk region.

A resident of Tofalaria is freezing in her own home because she has no one to deliver firewood to her. A 77-year-old resident of the remote village of Nerkha in the Irkutsk region is freezing in her own home. A woman needs a car that can transport firewood from the forest to her house - no more than a kilometer. This year, officials refused to provide for these purposes the only car that was donated to the village by an entrepreneur.

The court in Borza, Trans-Baikal Territory, imposed such a punishment on 18-year-old local resident Sergei Antipyev, a 3rd year student at the local technological college. On September 10, during class, Antipyev drew in his workbook “an image of a pistol with a flying bullet,” a Nazi swastika and the inscription “Glory to Ukraine,” the investigation claims. He showed the drawings to his underage classmate.

Artists reimagined Russ advertising Artists from the Animators against war association and designer skinhead presented an alternative advertisement for the Russ company - with hunters and shot bears. “If the bear is a symbol of Russia, then what does it symbolize now?” — is the title of the selection of shots. “No one discredits their own propaganda more than she does herself.

Officially, the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression is celebrated on October 30. The day before, according to established tradition, the “Return of Names” event takes place all over the world: the names and years of life of people who were shot for no reason during the Great Terror are read aloud. Some names are heard at such events for the first time after many years of oblivion.

Mayor Pavel Berezovsky spoke about large-scale cuts in his Telegram channel. According to him, problems with the budget have been going on for several years: expenses for repairs and acquisitions have already been cut, and now the situation has worsened. When planning the budget for the next year, the authorities decided to cut not only expenses, but also the rates of public sector employees.

He lived at the front for less than a month. An obituary for 18-year-old Kirill Babkinov appeared in the Nukutsk District administration group. It states that Babkinov served as an assistant grenade launcher shooter. The teenager died on September 2 with the rank of corporal. On September 29 the farewell took place. Babkinov was born in the village of Tanguty, Nukutsky district. He graduated from the 9th grade of the Tangut Secondary School, after which he entered the Agin Pedagogical College.

In July, a court in Buryatia sentenced a teenager from Transbaikalia to eight years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of treason and sabotage. According to security officials, in the summer of 2025, a Trans-Baikal resident contacted a representative of the Ukrainian special service online, who offered him to commit arson for a reward of 100 thousand rubles. The teenager set fire to the base station and diesel locomotive, and sent footage of the fire to an unknown person.

UPD The press service of LisaAlert denied information about the suspension of searches The LisaAlert search and rescue team has suspended the search for missing people in the forests of Siberia, the Far East and the northern regions of Russia. Restrictions are already in effect in the Irkutsk, Tomsk and Arkhangelsk regions, as well as in Altai. They plan to resume the search after the snow settles and the bears go into hibernation.