The ex-inspector himself will soon face new charges. The military investigative department of the Irkutsk Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case into the torture of Viktor Askhaev by FSB officers. The ex-inspector spoke about this on social networks. Now he and his lawyer are preparing a complaint to the higher investigative committee and the court.

The court in Yakutsk has resumed proceedings in the criminal case against 34-year-old Alexander Stepanov, People of Baikal noted. The meeting was scheduled for July 8. On June 10, Koshmare was found and detained in Ulan-Ude. Almost a month earlier, he had escaped from house arrest. A former participant in the war with Ukraine, Stepanov is a defendant in five criminal cases . In July 2022, he broke a bar patron's jaw.

The disaster struck the city on June 26. In one of the residential buildings, gusts of wind tore off part of the roof, a tree fell near the church and damaged power lines. As a result, part of the city was left without electricity. By coincidence, today is the day of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bodaibinsky district. In the morning, the governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, congratulated the residents.

Givi course: 10 liters of gasoline = 10 bottles of wine. Signal if you are ready to bargain" A young man in a fur hat stands on one of the streets of Irkutsk with such a poster. The city, like many other places in Russia, is experiencing a fuel crisis. Photo: sent by LB readers

The mayor of Irkutsk, Ruslan Bolotov, said that dry toilets will be installed near gas stations in the city in order to “at least somehow reduce the inconvenience of drivers.” Local journalist Alexander Malm posted a video of the installation of one of them. Fan barriers have also begun to be installed near city gas stations, which will separate the queue into those who need diesel and those who need gasoline. Fences have already appeared near five gas stations, local channels write.

His Irkutsk colleague had this removed from his post. Alexey Tsydenov commented for the first time on the problems with gasoline in the republic. He called the situation difficult and tense. "What's happening? The enemy is hitting our refineries - this is an objective fact, and this affects the fuel market,” wrote Tsydenov.

A video message to passengers on social networks was published by the director of Avtosib LLC, Ekaterina Rekhtina. Her company services intercity routes No. 372 and 375 from Angarsk to Irkutsk. She said that the company’s office receives many calls from passengers who ask whether the fare will increase due to the rise in gasoline prices, and whether the company will stop its work. “As a director, I declare: yes, there is a threat of transportation disruptions.

“People of Baikal” consider torture unacceptable in the civilized world. By torture we mean not only the infliction of physical pain on a person, but also the creation of inhuman conditions for him in prison cells - cold due to broken windows, deprivation of parcels and letters from relatives, denial of visits, transfer to a punishment cell for not doing exercises in the morning.