The former Hollywood Cinema is now called the Era Cinema. In the fall of 2024, city residents complained in a city chat about the foreign name of the local cinema. “The name of the cinema is generally...No comment”, “Yes, and next to it is a monument to a Russian hero!!!”, “I don’t like these imported names either. The cinema had a normal name, no, it should have been renamed Hollywood!” - they wrote. The mayor of Bratsk, Alexander Dubrovin, responded to the complaints.

According to investigators, since the spring of 2023, he published comments on social networks and on video hosting, which the court qualified as extremism and terrorism. The verdict was handed down by the Second Eastern District Military Court in the Trans-Baikal Territory, TASS reports. The man was also banned from engaging in public activities on the Internet for four and a half years. The decision has not yet entered into force.

The head of the republic, Alexey Tsydenov, said at the annual report that since the beginning of the “SVO”, 9.7 billion rubles have been allocated from the budget of Buryatia to support participants in military operations. In addition, there are more than 40 collection points for humanitarian aid in the region, and 16 thousand people are involved in the volunteer movement. Residents collected another 316 million rubles in voluntary donations.

56-year-old truck driver from Irkutsk Viktor Kazakov was taken to war in September 2022 during mobilization. A few months later he was shell-shocked, and in February 2024 he was seriously wounded. Doctors barely managed to save his right arm, which after a shrapnel wound was literally “hanging by a thread,” says his sister Elena. Viktor was fitted with the Elizarov apparatus and, after two operations in Irkutsk, was sent to a military unit in Donetsk to receive permission for the next operation.

She sits in a cage and is fed by volunteers. On the territory of the former private zoo “Living Bears” in Listvyanka, local residents found a female bear who was left in a rusty cage. “Everyone thought Masha had disappeared long ago! And she is here, sitting alone. Here is her cage. No food, no water, nothing,” say the authors of the video. When local residents discovered Masha, they saw that her drinking bowl was covered with mud, and the bear herself was eating nettles.

A colonel who was investigating the theft and torture of prisoners in IK-15 has gone missing. He himself was sent to a colony, and then to the front FSIN Colonel Alexander Cheprasov conducted an internal investigation in Irkutsk colony No. 15, known for torturing prisoners. Cheprasov came across a large network of security officials and businessmen who were stealing timber and sending it abroad. He managed to send some of the materials to court, and FSIN employees received sentences.