Artem Asalkhudin from Ust-Ilimsk was sentenced to 18 years in the case of treason, attempted sabotage and justification of terrorism. He will have to spend the first five years in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony. 42-year-old Asalkhudin came under persecution for a comment under a post about his fellow countryman Ruslan Zinin, who shot at a military commissar to protect a relative from mobilization.

Grigory Gribenko was released after being re-arrested. He was accused of using drugs; the politician himself connects the persecution with an attempt to hold a rally against blocking. Gribenko was detained for the first time on April 23. He was charged with administrative drugs and accused of disobeying the police. Previously, traces of marijuana were allegedly found in his tests. The politician was able to prove that the test results were falsified.

The source of “People of Baikal” discovered in leaked data aggregators (bots for breaking through) a database allegedly containing user requests to the Telegram support service The source of “People of Baikal” discovered a database in leaked data aggregators (bots for breaking through), allegedly containing user requests to the Telegram support service. In aggregator No. 1, the leak is called “Telegram support service”, in aggregator No. 2 - “CIS Telegram requests 2025”, in aggregator No.

Professional freediver Alexandra Gordeeva dived under the ice of Lake Baikal in April wearing fashionable dresses, shoes and pantsuits. The water temperature in the lake at this time of year is about zero degrees. The experimental fashion show was organized by stylist Omar Bayramov, and the collection was created by designer Rosa Manvelyan. According to her idea, the clothes on the model reflect the “mystical atmosphere” of Baikal. Photographed underwater by Sergey Subbotin and Andrey Belyaev.

Previously, authorities reported that kindergartens and schools will accept children on Monday, May 18. But over the weekend, Sergei Mazur, general director of the Teplovodokanal municipal unitary enterprise, warned citizens about the risk of new water outages. He said that the water continues to rise and floods the floating pumping station "Rosa" - the station cannot float due to the malfunction of the pontoons and the difficult position on the coastal slope.

After her arrest, he lived alone in the apartment. Shar Pei Red (in the second photo) was 10 years old. He lived without his owner for three weeks. Svetlana's relatives looked after him. On May 6, one of them found a dog on the floor without signs of life. “Most likely, my heart couldn’t stand it,” Svetlana’s relative told LB. Red's owner, 63-year-old anesthesiologist Svetlana Burim, left her apartment on April 15 for a court hearing where her case about comments on YouTube was being considered.

53-year-old farmer Andrei Padalka wrote an open letter from an Irkutsk detention center in which he said that on May 13 he was beaten for not shouting a greeting to the administration loud enough. “I was in a sick condition. “I had a doctor’s appointment the day before,” Andrey wrote. “For this reason, the greeting was shouted more quietly than the others. For this he received five blows to the head in the back of the head with a blunt object.

All people in the world are connected by six handshakes and a bicycle. An artist from the Netherlands rides a bicycle across Eurasia from west to east and delivers paper letters from some strangers he meets along the way to other strangers who live east of them. He does this in order to restore living connections between people. The chains branch or break, the artist is cut by the wind and snow, the sun bakes him. Sometimes he barely dodges trucks and is almost washed out to sea by a wave.