CURRENTTIME — broadcast 20260920 213000 UTC 463 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:03] The coal rush attracts hundreds of people to this business in the district. In [00:00:07] the cold season, work in the coal mines of Karagyach is carried out [00:00:10] around the clock. [00:00:13] If we don't work here, it will be hard for people in the city. [00:00:28] Here, roughly speaking, we have 22 floors of [00:00:32] mines underground for gold mining since tsarist times. [00:00:36] There's a whole city underground, you could say. That is, the lower floors are all [00:00:39] flooded, the upper ones are open. You can enter on one mountain, walk several kilometers [00:00:43] underground, well, through these mines, and exit on another mountain. [00:00:46] That is, there's an underground city. All [00:00:50] of this was developed and mined [00:00:54] since some 1800s year. [00:01:02] What it is famous for is that here, at [00:01:05] a high altitude, snow falls early and melts [00:01:09] late, and accordingly, it's very good for snowboarding [00:01:12] and skiing, that is, freeride. Also [00:01:15] snowmobiling. The snow here falls from 2 [00:01:18] meters and by the end of the season reaches up to 10 [00:01:22] meters. [00:01:25] Sometimes even a snow groomer cannot [00:01:28] climb up because of the large [00:01:32] volume of snow. People come from all over Russia, [00:01:35] starting from Moscow to Vladivostok, and [00:01:39] even when the borders were open, Finns [00:01:42] came. [00:01:50] In every mountain there are workings where [00:01:53] there is a high concentration of gold. Those passages are blocked, but [00:01:56] there are still open shafts that... [00:02:00] you can even go through, [00:02:03] but it's kind of dangerous because the wood [00:02:07] has probably weakened. [00:02:10] Someone goes, quietly looks, observes, [00:02:13] extracts, maybe even. [00:02:17] I used to live 150 km [00:02:20] from here, in the city of Sharifovo, [00:02:24] but it just so happened that 3 years ago [00:02:28] I came here to work. [00:02:30] I stayed, took my parents with me. The salary [00:02:34] is good, the boss never, as they say, [00:02:37] offends. Our Anatoly even [00:02:39] encourages us, and everything is [00:02:42] great. As for the locals, well, he worked [00:02:46] for nuts for a season, earned his penny, but it's good for him, he sits at [00:02:50] home, as if here people [00:02:53] live not by money, but by the gifts [00:02:57] of nature. We have, as they say, everything. We [00:03:01] earned enough, whoever wants to earns, [00:03:04] goes to work, earns extra, repairs [00:03:07] snowmobiles, works in hotels. [00:03:10] Whoever doesn't want to earns from the taiga - berries, [00:03:14] mushrooms, nuts. That is, they have seasonal work, and in winter [00:03:18] they just rest. Well, that is, they drink. Well, you could say [00:03:22] that. [00:03:42] Life was bustling in these houses. Once upon a time, it was a full [00:03:45] house. It was impossible to get an apartment [00:03:48] in these houses. We survive, not [00:03:51] live. In winter [00:03:54] it's cold, we heat stoves. [00:03:57] The roofs are all leaky. Everything [00:04:00] is crumbling. Well, actually, I have lived here in this apartment for 30 years [00:04:04] and for over 30 years no repairs have ever [00:04:07] been done. It's cold here, we have a wall on [00:04:10] the street, a hole. We foamed it up, and [00:04:13] we live on. We just don't want to pay for someone else's apartment, so [00:04:17] we live, we survive here. And [00:04:20] the rest of the houses, all the people have moved out and rent [00:04:23] housing, apartments. They promised this year, but [00:04:27] it didn't work out for them, I don't know when now. [00:04:30] They promise, promises, only promises. [00:04:33] обещания, [00:04:36] Next year, next year, next year, [00:04:39] next year. That's it. We receive [00:04:42] our pension. Well, it's enough for life, 11,700. [00:04:46] We try to earn extra somewhere, well, I'm in [00:04:50] the hospital, hospital, resort. I earn extra. I [00:04:53] clear snow. What, they paid me a penny, good. Well, [00:04:57] they pay a thousand, it's not enough. [00:05:00] Everyone worked in the mine, it was [00:05:03] very prestigious to work in the mine, [00:05:06] it was generally good. [00:05:09] Earnings were, well, for those times, of course. Well, [00:05:13] my husband and I had [00:05:16] 800 rubles a month. And I worked in the [00:05:19] compressor room, meaning they supplied air to [00:05:23] the mine for the machines to work. In [00:05:26] ninety-eighth, the mine was officially closed. [00:05:29] In ninety-fourth, they already started delaying [00:05:33] salaries for many months. In ninety- [00:05:37] sixth, we practically didn't work anymore, we just [00:05:40] went on duty, well, sometimes they turned [00:05:43] on the air there or [00:05:46] asked to pump out water or something. Well, in short, that's [00:05:50] how it was until ninety-eighth. In ninety-eighth, it was [00:05:54] officially closed. Well, whoever could, left. [00:05:57] Well, the management naturally all [00:06:00] left, not one remained [00:06:02] here. [00:06:04] But we, simple workers, remained here, [00:06:07] lived, survived, went, [00:06:11] there prospectors worked. We went there, washed [00:06:14] gold, surrendered it, that's how [00:06:17] we fed ourselves. The police, as they do now, caught [00:06:20] and punished, [00:06:22] but we still went, because we wanted to eat, and [00:06:26] our children wanted to eat. It happened [00:06:30] differently. [00:06:32] Sometimes plenty, sometimes little. This is not gold, it's not like [00:06:36] you just go and take it. You had to [00:06:39] mine it, you had to wash it. Well, we collected [00:06:43] soil with a pan, poured it into the pan and washed it [00:06:46] by hand. [00:06:49] We mined gold, so people came to us, [00:06:53] bought gold. Outsiders. We [00:06:56] washed as much as we could, they came, [00:07:00] we sold it. That's it, they [00:07:03] left, we were happy with the money, went to [00:07:06] the store. Even back then, that money [00:07:10] was not much. But [00:07:13] we still survived, everyone wanted to eat. Back then, remember, [00:07:17] pensions were not paid, and child benefits were not [00:07:20] paid. But you [00:07:22] wanted to eat. You wouldn't get far on just potatoes. We still [00:07:26] planted vegetable gardens. Well, potatoes are [00:07:30] potatoes. There were severe raids, but [00:07:33] we tried somehow, [00:07:36] you can go far into the taiga through the forest, [00:07:40] you can escape. Or [00:07:42] we ran away. My foreman was [00:07:45] crushed during the prospecting. Well, we considered this prospecting, we [00:07:49] already went as foremen. Many people, [00:07:53] probably six or seven, were crushed during [00:07:56] this period, since the mine was already closed. We already [00:08:00] worked, so to speak, illegally. Well, [00:08:03] for example, this ceiling, it's called the roof in the mine. And [00:08:05] the roof can be [00:08:09] different, it can be strong, such a monolithic one, it won't fall, but sometimes... [00:08:13] it falls. Well, you blocked it and there you check [00:08:16] with a rock hammer, you knock. If it rings with a dull sound, [00:08:20] not a clear one, it means it [00:08:23] will fall someday. Well, when they started prospecting, there was no [00:08:27] control anymore. Everyone was on their own. [00:08:30] You found gold, [00:08:32] you went there, and nothing else mattered. And [00:08:36] it crushed people, [00:08:37] it crushed people. [00:08:40] There are many in the mine, us and... [00:09:12] How many of them are being built here? 11 have already been built. What kind of [00:09:16] work is there for people? They need prospects, [00:09:19] they need experience. Here, in one boiler room, [00:09:22] experience counts, nowhere else does experience [00:09:24] count. In the village council, an old woman guards, [00:09:28] there experience counts. But in hotels, experience doesn't [00:09:31] count. Today I came, they need me. Tomorrow [00:09:35] they don't need me at this hotel. In short, it's based on [00:09:38] demand. If a person is needed, they come. If not, they don't. Well, there [00:10:13] I'll tell you directly, honestly, one person just [00:10:16] froze to death, they buried him two days [00:10:19] ago. [00:10:21] He already had delirium tremens enough to kill him. [00:10:25] Just before that, another one here, [00:10:28] Ivanov also [00:10:31] died of epilepsy. He drank to such an extent that [00:10:34] epilepsy struck him down. He struggled, struggled, [00:10:38] died. [00:10:41] He was also buried somewhere like a pauper, I don't know, but he was needed by [00:10:44] no one, such [00:10:46] alcoholics. [00:10:48] People from here, yes, those who have the opportunity leave, mostly [00:10:52] young people. Soon no one will be left to study. [00:10:55] Maybe I had the opportunity to leave, but I don't [00:10:58] want to, I don't want this city bustle, I don't want it. [00:11:02] And I've been going for the second season to work [00:11:05] in the boiler room, while I'm still moving. [00:11:08] In 5 days I will be 70 [00:11:11] years old. [00:11:20] me that [00:11:24] what? [00:11:26] We dismantle, we break, we build, [00:11:30] what is unsuitable, goes into the [00:11:32] stove. Well, at least, there's no [00:11:35] settlement. There was [00:11:38] a settlement, everywhere there. [00:11:41] там, [00:11:43] Nothing is left [00:11:45] here. Everything was cut for firewood, everything [00:11:49] burned down. The school worked, there was a kindergarten, [00:11:53] a nursery. Everything, a bakery, [00:11:57] there were shops. Here all the residents lived everywhere, [00:12:01] all the houses were here, everything [00:12:04] was built up. Look at what [00:12:07] our large village has [00:12:09] turned into, a lively working settlement turned [00:12:12] into just ruins. [00:12:16] Of course it was a shame, there was work, [00:12:20] production, gold was mined, [00:12:23] a factory. [00:12:55] business is such a rip-off, nothing like that. Private [00:12:58] business, why is it developing? It only develops itself, I think [00:13:02] so. So, [00:13:05] it was the eighties, we were advised to come [00:13:08] here because in the eighties all products were [00:13:11] here, all the scarce goods, when there was [00:13:15] nothing left in the cities. My husband and I came with our eldest [00:13:18] son and immediately took a two-room [00:13:20] apartment, while in the city we lived in a barrack in one [00:13:24] room. We were very happy, the salary [00:13:28] was good, until the nineties we lived very [00:13:31] well, salaries were good, everything. Then [00:13:34] they went bankrupt, we were left with nothing. Whoever could, [00:13:37] left, everyone scattered. Well, we are old-timers now, we [00:13:41] live on pension, this is our comfortable house. There's nothing to leave with, you need to [00:13:44] go somewhere, live somewhere. We have an apartment here, there are no [00:13:48] other savings. But the bad thing is there are no [00:13:52] doctors in the district, only in Abakan, so we have to go to Abakan. Well, [00:13:55] my husband and I go to Krasnoyarsk, our daughter lives there, [00:13:58] she got married. 500 km to Krasnoyarsk, [00:14:01] 400 to Abakan. Recently, my husband [00:14:05] and I went, I examined him, he has lung problems, [00:14:08] silicosis, as an occupational disease, his lungs are filled with [00:14:12] sand. He was a miner for me. [00:14:15] был, [00:14:20] We have no doctors or paramedics in the village. We have two nurses [00:14:23] working. First of all, there are many vacationers in the mountains, [00:14:26] and all sorts of fractures happen. They come down from [00:14:29] the mountains, we provide aid and take them to the central district hospital, 100 [00:14:33] km away. We provide aid to everyone [00:14:37] at home, in any case. If a blizzard starts, a strong [00:14:40] blizzard, you can't reach the houses, grandmas can't [00:14:43] reach the hospital, if it blows [00:14:46] hard. Therefore, they call [00:14:49] us home. Both frosts and blizzards, what can [00:14:53] I say? They get used to it, we're used to it. For us, all this [00:14:57] is already... For our settlement, the most important thing is still the pharmacy, without it [00:15:00] it's impossible here, 100 km. Not everyone has [00:15:03] the opportunity to go to the center to buy medicines. Our [00:15:07] buses run rarely, only twice a week. You won't go to the center just for [00:15:11] medicine. At any moment, a person comes, takes [00:15:15] medicine. All the most necessary life-saving things are there. [00:15:18] Listen, well, it's awkward, it's awkward, but still, [00:15:21] I'll ask, do you have anything for your butt? [00:15:39] I caught a slight cold. Well, back or what? Not [00:15:42] butt. I'm telling you directly, [00:15:45] butt. [00:15:46] Asshole. [00:15:50] Okay, wait, sit down now, I need to make a call. [00:15:53] Let's do it tomorrow. I came in. Well, let's [00:15:57] do it today. An ultrasound is going on now. Well, his will grow [00:16:00] tomorrow already. [00:16:04] Here, something for a cold. Powders? Do you want some? 150 [00:16:14] 60 708 [00:16:17] Take it. Uh-huh. [00:16:21] So, you, Pasha, have you given blood? [00:16:24] No, I haven't given it yet. Yes, have you eaten today? [00:16:28] Eaten? No, I haven't eaten yet. [00:16:31] Uh-huh. And you want to kill my blood now? [00:16:34] Pasha, you need to take them every day, understand? [00:17:07] Without sewage, how do they manage? Today [00:17:11] we'll be diving again. [00:17:13] Well, that's in case someone [00:17:17] injured or tore something, we need to stitch them up. [00:17:21] We have these [00:17:22] kits bought. [00:17:25] We go to our local hospital, because [00:17:29] they don't have them. We give [00:17:32] the girls [00:17:35] such a kit. Here [00:17:39] are the threads. For 7 years we have been fully working like [00:17:43] this, this is the eighth year. Guest houses, we have three of them. [00:17:46] We have snow groomers, snowmobiles for rent. When you're in the [00:17:50] rental business, you have to [00:17:52] repair the equipment and [00:17:56] check it to make sure that nothing was [00:18:00] missed. [00:18:03] You have to keep an eye on the oil, preferably the tank should always be [00:18:06] full. Initially, I had about three serious lawsuits. That is, just [00:18:10] about a year and a half ago, I only [00:18:13] just covered all that, settled up. [00:18:17] It was noticeably difficult. There are probably no more locals here, because [00:18:21] all the other motels are people who came from [00:18:24] big cities. That is, people invested money, [00:18:27] built, hired people, an administrator, and it [00:18:30] functions. Well, they mainly work only [00:18:34] during the season, but we work all year round. [00:18:38] We clear the village itself with our snow groomers, all the snow. That is, if [00:18:42] before it wasn't cleared at all, you could drive to the beginning of the village and walk [00:18:46] home, there were snowdrifts everywhere. That is, this is a big [00:18:48] plus for the locals, for the village. This is already a question for the [00:18:52] authorities, as they seem to shout, saying they want [00:18:56] to see some kind of ski resort, but for that you need [00:18:59] to build a road too. We still don't have sewage treatment plants in [00:19:02] the village. Locals are used to working on [00:19:06] gold, on...rivers or something related to that, and for them this topic of tourism [00:19:10] is somehow generally unclear. The main mass of people, [00:19:13] capable workers, have left. Over 400 [00:19:17] people remain. Well, naturally, these are drinking people, [00:19:21] those who have nowhere to go, or something else, and you won't [00:19:24] make them work with anything. That is, such a contingent [00:19:28] remained that, well, those who [00:19:31] work, they work, they go to shifts, they do something, they [00:19:34] run shops, something else. Well, they try. [00:19:38] Those who don't want to work, they stayed, and you [00:19:41] won't make them. That is, if you hire [00:19:44] them, they work a day or two, ask for an advance with tears, [00:19:48] and disappear. That is, they just won't come, you yourself will go out in the morning and do their [00:19:51] work, then in 2 days he will call you, oh he says, I'm ready [00:19:55] to work again there, well, that's [00:19:58] probably our problem after the nineties all over [00:20:02] Russia, this is the same here. [00:20:05] This is also hard work for... Don't even talk about it. Here, even for [00:20:09] the guys to be tour guides, they need to have an approach to each [00:20:12] tourist. And different people come, it's not two or three people who came, [00:20:16] new ones come every time. So they went with [00:20:20] people, well, a group for 3 days, they worked with these people. [00:20:24] Everything seemed fine. Another group came, you need to adjust to other people too. If [00:20:27] now one, second, third, fourth, fifth, they will come to you like that and make their own [00:20:31] demands, ask "do this for me, do that for me, this," when [00:20:35] you, and then you end up being torn apart. [00:20:38] You are just one person, you can't be torn into three pieces. [00:20:42] This happens constantly every day, [00:20:45] this cycle, it takes away your personal [00:20:48] life. You live for other [00:20:51] people. That's why you leave. I worked [00:20:55] 10 years in tourism, I've had enough of it. I want [00:20:59] a break from tourism. I needed work experience as a [00:21:02] land surveyor. I came here to [00:21:06] gain some experience, but [00:21:09] I am not working in that field at the moment. I left [00:21:12] the administration. [00:21:14] Now I work in a closed club. We have one here in [00:21:18] Priiskovy. A cultural center, whose [00:21:22] building has been closed since eighteen due to being dilapidated. [00:21:26] We hold some events [00:21:29] outdoors. But right now, [00:21:33] they provide us with the administration building. Well, there are [00:21:37] few children because there are no young people here. 45 [00:21:40] people attend school. In the tenth grade, there are two people. The largest class [00:21:44] is the second grade, I think there are six or nine [00:21:47] people. Small classes. Well, I don't see [00:21:50] any point in living here. For about 6 years, I think, I will stay here, then, if [00:21:54] possible, I will try to leave here, not try, but just pack up and [00:21:58] leave. [00:22:04] The children go to school, they drive and don't understand anything, they're just [00:22:07] small children, ready to crash. They are all drunk on this snowmobile, they drink [00:22:11] and throw these bottles, throw these. In short, they've already littered the whole taiga with [00:22:14] oil from all these things, they've thrown everything around. And [00:22:18] the taiga feels it, it's already... [00:22:21] as they say, I think, Lord, where do people get such [00:22:24] money? This simply amazes me. And to [00:22:28] take a bath in the bathhouse, they have 2 hours of bath for 4,000 just [00:22:31] to wash. Can you imagine what rooms they have, this and what [00:22:35] kind of crazy money they have? They [00:22:38] come with such money, and we built [00:22:41] this bathhouse when there were no skiers here yet. I could [00:22:44] still build something calmly, as they say, on my own land. We only built [00:22:48] it a little later, and then these skiers started buying everything up. It's a shame [00:22:52] that I worked my whole life, as they say, and [00:22:55] now I can't build a shed anywhere, or do anything, because all [00:22:59] the land is sold, everything is seized. To live a whole life like this, and now [00:23:02] they are the owners, and we are like their guests. That's how you can [00:23:06] think. Of course, we lived our lives and [00:23:10] caused ourselves such a headache. [00:23:13] Every year it's, "Oh, we'll open the mine, we'll open the mine." And so much silence for [00:23:17] so many years, and silence, and no mine, nothing. They [00:23:20] might have something going on somewhere in Moscow, some progress, some [00:23:24] movement. But we have absolutely nothing, it's all [00:23:27] frozen, as they say, it remained that way. Nothing, [00:23:31] only these skiers came, and that's just another headache from them, [00:23:34] nothing else. That's it. We are like forgotten, nobody [00:23:38] needs us here. That's it, no truth, no [00:23:41] power. For me, all these people, [00:23:45] why vote? For what? Because everything is as it was, [00:23:48] everything is still in the same place, how does it stand? [00:24:50] You've been living in war for five years, how? How do you [00:24:54] show a destroyed [00:24:55] city? [00:25:00] The city is empty, everything [00:25:02] that was once familiar to you, noisy, also [00:25:06] becomes [00:25:06] empty. [00:25:13] So what's his way out, besides going to [00:25:16] hang himself quietly in a corner? Russia is simply driving us [00:25:20] into some kind of medieval age. There is a place for such [00:25:24] a liberal party in Russia, of course, but there [00:25:27] is no such party. [00:25:30] And I had to write about what was happening there, well, like [00:25:34] a concentration camp behind the walls in my country, this [00:25:38] is a pain that is always with you. I will not tempt [00:25:41] fate. Why do you need this? What are you [00:25:44] preparing for? Why, [00:25:47] in your opinion, is this moment or one person? [00:25:56] No, by the way, oil is at $100 again. World oil [00:25:59] prices sharply jumped due to new escalation. Oil [00:26:02] is 106 and continues to grow. Yes, yes, our budget [00:26:05] is being filled. Yes, good evening. Yes, Kremlin [00:26:09] propagandists are happy about the rise in world oil [00:26:12] prices. The interests of the state, for them, seem to be above the interests [00:26:15] of individual citizens. Federal television eagerly discusses [00:26:19] the benefits of rising oil prices, but turns a blind eye to [00:26:23] the gasoline shortage in the country. Searching for gasoline at night in [00:26:26] Yekaterinburg. How many hours did you wait? Since eight? [00:26:29] 3.5, right? Ah, well, a little more. [00:26:40] Since late spring, there have been plenty of such videos on social networks. [00:26:43] Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries caused [00:26:47] a severe fuel crisis in almost all Russian [00:26:50] regions. 92 and diesel are available, nothing [00:26:54] else. In online broadcasts and on the radio, the shortage is discussed [00:26:58] cautiously. It's impossible to ignore the topic, but pro-government [00:27:01] media dare not actively discuss it. [00:27:05] Let's talk about the availability of gasoline now. This also [00:27:08] creates a certain background, nervousness. Regional media [00:27:12] practically daily publish lists of gas stations [00:27:15] where you can refuel and give advice on how to save fuel. [00:27:19] Local authorities periodically introduce an odd-even system [00:27:21] depending on the car number [00:27:24] of private car owners. Emergency services transport [00:27:28] and the fleet of officials remain a priority. The reasons for the crisis [00:27:32] are not publicly discussed in the media, using vague formulations and [00:27:36] newspeak. Work to control and stabilize prices at private [00:27:40] gas stations. Official sources link the gasoline shortage to [00:27:43] disrupted logistics and all well-known political [00:27:47] reasons. Meanwhile, on federal channels, they joyfully [00:27:50] discuss attacks on Ukrainian gas stations, rising gasoline prices in [00:27:54] the US, the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, which disrupted [00:27:57] usual global oil supplies. Oil prices continue [00:28:01] to rise. US President Trump said that high fuel prices worldwide [00:28:05] are not the fault of the Middle East conflict, but [00:28:08] Zelensky. If things continue this way, Russia will have no [00:28:12] budget problems at all, even with financing serious military [00:28:15] operations. Russia's budget, from which the Kremlin continues [00:28:18] to finance the war in Ukraine, is actually bursting [00:28:22] at the seams. Military expenditures continue to grow, as does [00:28:25] the budget deficit. According to official data from the Ministry of Finance, for [00:28:29] January-August of this year it reached 5.8 trillion [00:28:32] rubles, or 2.5% of GDP. This is 1.5 times [00:28:36] more than the analogous period of last year, 2025. [00:28:40] According to economists, this year's deficit could be 9 [00:28:43] trillion rubles. However, the [00:28:46] Kremlin calls the deficit a movable figure; it will not [00:28:49] influence the political decision to stop [00:28:52] the war. [00:28:55] And you can hear it falling again, [00:28:57] another one. [00:29:01] Command. [00:29:08] And during the court session, an unexpected [00:29:11] detail emerged: thousands of people took to the streets of [00:29:14] Tbilisi. [00:29:17] Western sports brands almost failed to escape from [00:29:20] Russia. [00:29:27] Persons who are not directly participating in hostilities, [00:29:31] including [00:29:34] those members of the armed forces who have laid down their arms, as well as those who [00:29:37] have ceased to take part in hostilities due to [00:29:41] illness, injury, detention, or for any [00:29:44] other reason, shall in all circumstances [00:29:48] be treated humanely. [00:30:32] The village of Ostrov, like the flood, cut off Afanasiivka in Mykolaiv [00:30:36] region. [00:30:39] Water began to overflow the dam, began [00:30:42] to fill these [00:30:43] ponds. [00:30:48] And in the evening, this dam broke, [00:30:51] that is, [00:30:57] and it instantly rushed in...