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[00:01:01] 3 o'clock in Moscow, the broadcast of the Russia-24 TV channel continues.
[00:01:19] Today in Russia is the final third day of elections, the last
[00:01:22] opportunity to vote for all who have not yet done so. By this
[00:01:26] hour, polling stations are open in some regions of Siberia in the Far East.
[00:01:30] There, as in the country as a whole, the process is quite lively. For example, in
[00:01:33] Primorsky Krai, the figure is even higher than the national
[00:01:37] average, almost 49%. In addition
[00:01:40] to deputies of the State Duma, the region is electing the composition of the local
[00:01:43] legislative assembly. Ksenia Kolchina is directly reporting from
[00:01:47] Vladivostok. Ksenia, greetings! If we compare
[00:01:50] with previous days, and you have been working for the third day at the polling stations,
[00:01:54] how active are the
[00:01:56] voters today?
[00:02:00] Denis, hello, yes, indeed, the third and final day
[00:02:03] of voting has begun in the Far
[00:02:06] East. We are in Vladivostok, here the polling stations
[00:02:10] have been open for 2 hours, and as you know, despite the
[00:02:13] early hour on Sunday, voters
[00:02:17] are coming. Of course, queues for ballot boxes are not forming yet, but
[00:02:21] one after another, voters are coming, receiving
[00:02:23] ballots, and fulfilling their civic
[00:02:26] duty. Regarding turnout, indeed, turnout at the
[00:02:30] end of the second day in Primorye turned out to be quite high, it was
[00:02:33] 48.82%, these are indeed very good
[00:02:37] indicators. There is data for individual cities, so
[00:02:41] the leader in Primorsky Krai was the city Bolshoy Kamen, this city is about two
[00:02:44] hours drive from Vladivostok, there the turnout was
[00:02:47] 56.62%.
[00:02:50] In second place is the city Spassk Dalny, there the turnout is
[00:02:52] 55.52%,
[00:02:54] that is, voters in Primorsky Krai are really active,
[00:02:58] and we think that the third day will also be quite
[00:03:02] active on the part of citizens. Today, of course,
[00:03:06] is the most difficult, responsible day for members of precinct
[00:03:09] election commissions, today at 8:00 PM they will not only
[00:03:12] close the polling stations, but will begin the procedure of extinguishing and counting
[00:03:15] ballots, they will do this for as long as it takes, many polling stations will
[00:03:19] work all night to then transfer data to territorial election
[00:03:23] commissions, and they in turn will send the figures to the regional
[00:03:27] election commission. Tomorrow morning we will find out
[00:03:30] the first data on the results of the three days
[00:03:33] of voting. I remind you, in Primorye there are 1,253
[00:03:37] polling stations, voters are given four ballots, as
[00:03:40] you absolutely correctly, Denis, noted, in our region they are electing the composition of the State
[00:03:44] Duma of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai.
[00:03:47] Colleagues.
[00:03:50] Yes, Ksenia, thank you, I see that even the weather is favorable, so
[00:03:54] everything is in place for people to come today and
[00:03:57] make their choice. My colleague Ksenia
[00:04:00] Kolchina reported
[00:04:01] on the elections in Primorye.
[00:04:05] The nationwide turnout for the State Duma elections after 2 days
[00:04:08] was over 44%. This is data
[00:04:11] from the Central Election Commission. In general, the process is going normally, without serious
[00:04:15] violations. The Central Election Commission records all incoming signals, and responds
[00:04:19] immediately. Voting coverage by Maria
[00:04:21] Valieva. Attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not
[00:04:25] stop. In the Luhansk People's Republic, 14
[00:04:28] polling stations had to be switched to backup
[00:04:31] power supply. SMS alerts about drone danger
[00:04:35] arrive regularly, but despite this, people
[00:04:38] come to the polling stations to express their
[00:04:42] civic position, what is there to fear,
[00:04:45] nothing to fear, we are used to everything
[00:04:48] already, we will cope with everything, if
[00:04:51] we consider our warriors, then of course we are very
[00:04:55] grateful to them, and we are not afraid, they will all win. The night was
[00:04:59] difficult for the energy services in
[00:05:02] the DPR, there were also power outages, but everything
[00:05:06] was quickly resolved, and it did not affect the voting process or the work
[00:05:09] of polling stations in any way.
[00:05:12] I would like to note the prompt work of our electricians, because
[00:05:16] there was a power outage at night, but by 8:00 AM
[00:05:19] all polling stations were open. This is not
[00:05:23] our first election campaign held in the Donetsk People's Republic and it has this
[00:05:27] negative vibe from Ukrainian villains, well,
[00:05:30] what else can you call them. The work of members of precinct election commissions
[00:05:34] in frontline regions is not easy, in Bryansk region
[00:05:37] stationary polling stations close at 3:00 PM for the
[00:05:41] safety of residents.
[00:06:42] reserved premises are provided for discovery,
[00:06:45] one of them had to be moved due to an attack
[00:06:49] by Ukrainian drones. Maria Valieva and Ivan Kuznetsov, Vesti.
[00:07:07] Russian units are pushing through the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses in the Dobropol direction
[00:07:11] in the DPR, street. Battles are already underway in the central part of Dobropol,
[00:07:15] neighboring Gulyovo and Maryevka have come under control, the liberation
[00:07:18] of the latter expanded the control zone of the Center group on the right
[00:07:21] flank and allowed to intensify fire on the road leading to
[00:07:25] the enemy's rear. In the Ukrainian defense of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration,
[00:07:29] another serious breach has formed.
[00:07:33] In total, since the beginning of September, Russian units have liberated 27
[00:07:36] settlements. The liquidation of the
[00:07:39] Reznyakovsky cauldron in Kharkiv region continues. Battles are underway for Orekhov
[00:07:43] in Zaporozhye, in Krasny Liman and Svyatogorsk - this is the DPR,
[00:07:47] the clearing of residential areas from militants. Since the beginning of the year,
[00:07:50] over 500 square kilometers
[00:07:53] of territory have been liberated.
[00:07:57] Iran handed over to the USA through mediators in Qatar the conditions for
[00:08:00] ending the war and is now awaiting Donald Trump's answer. This was
[00:08:04] stated by the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran to Al Jazeera.
[00:08:08] Tehran demands a cessation of hostilities
[00:08:11] on all fronts, unfreezing of assets, lifting of
[00:08:15] the naval blockade. Separately, a truce is proposed between
[00:08:18] Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. At the same time, the decision
[00:08:21] to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
[00:08:24] has not yet been made by the authorities of the Islamic Republic,
[00:08:27] however, as stated in Tehran, the actions of the USA and Israel
[00:08:31] allow Iran to withdraw from
[00:08:33] the agreement.
[00:08:37] In Germany, state elections are starting in the coming hours
[00:08:40] in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin. They could be
[00:08:43] a turning point for the ruling coalition and its
[00:08:47] leader Friedrich Merz personally. The CDU risks showing its worst
[00:08:50] result in history, and Merz could lose his chancellor's
[00:08:54] seat altogether. But the far-right Alternative for
[00:08:57] Germany is strengthening its positions. Bloomberg predicts
[00:09:00] an open revolt of his party members
[00:09:04] for Merz in case of a painful defeat. If you believe the latest polls, in
[00:09:07] Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the CDU can get a maximum of
[00:09:10] 6%. In the capital.
[00:09:21] and the company's chances of overcoming the five percent barrier are slightly better. Gaza became the arena of mass riots due to the authorities'
[00:09:25] migration policy. The action of the far-right against the reception
[00:09:28] of migrants ended in clashes with the police. Initially, the rally
[00:09:31] was peaceful, started with a concert, and then the protesters
[00:09:35] tried to break through the police cordon. Bottles, sticks
[00:09:38] and pyrotechnics were thrown at the law enforcement officers. In response.
[00:09:42] water cannons and tear gas. The rally participants demanded stricter
[00:09:46] requirements for asylum seekers in the country and immigrants. This
[00:09:50] week, the leader of the Dutch far-right party even
[00:09:53] stated, and I quote: "It's time for a big
[00:09:56] clean-up in the Netherlands." Among other things, he called for the repatriation of
[00:10:00] Syrian and Ukrainian
[00:10:04] citizens currently there.
[00:10:07] The eighty-first General Assembly of the UN is taking place in New York,
[00:10:11] the current Secretary-General will leave his post, ahead are
[00:10:14] elections for a new head of the organization and serious work to
[00:10:18] restore the UN's former authority,
[00:10:21] squandered over the past decades, and those who are
[00:10:24] responsible for this... our own correspondent, Valentin
[00:10:27] Bogdanov spoke with the Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN,
[00:10:31] Vasily Nebenzia.
[00:10:34] This is America, a program about a country that is difficult
[00:10:37] to understand.
[00:10:38] Hello.
[00:10:45] The UN headquarters is not only the Security Council chamber
[00:10:49] and lively corridors, but also a whole
[00:10:52] open-air sculpture museum. By
[00:10:55] the monuments gifted to the world organization by
[00:10:58] winners and losers, one can
[00:11:01] study modern history, or one can
[00:11:05] ponder the future next to them.
[00:11:08] We went on an unusual excursion together with
[00:11:11] Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzia.
[00:11:15] Tents for the press, fences to separate journalists from
[00:11:18] delegation members, the headquarters, as
[00:11:21] usual, transforms for the worse for a high-level event.
[00:11:25] But no architectural spam can overshadow
[00:11:29] the main masterpieces. "Let us beat our swords into
[00:11:32] plowshares" is the pinnacle of socialist realism, in which
[00:11:35] appealing to the peaceful purpose of the UN Charter, Soviet
[00:11:38] front-line soldier Yevgeny Vuchetich
[00:11:40] encoded a biblical quote. For you,
[00:11:44] perhaps, Vuchetich is still the dearest, as
[00:11:47] for a Volgograd resident, or for a Stalingrad resident? As for a Volgograd resident,
[00:11:51] I was born already, when the city was renamed.
[00:11:55] My sister is from Stalingrad, and I am from Volgograd. Vuchetich, as
[00:11:59] you rightly said, is a child of the Soviet Union,
[00:12:02] he is from Ukraine, he has interesting
[00:12:06] origins, but a Russian is not someone who is Russian by blood, but a Russian
[00:12:10] is someone who feels that way. The blacksmith who
[00:12:13] forges a plow, part of a series of works by the great sculptor
[00:12:17] related to the motif of the sword. This series also includes
[00:12:20] the Liberator Soldier in Berlin's Treptow Park, and the Motherland Calls
[00:12:24] in Kiev. And the monumental Motherland Calls
[00:12:27] on Mamaev Kurgan, in the small
[00:12:30] homeland of our permanent representative, who from New York watched
[00:12:33] the trips of Trump's emissaries. How do you
[00:12:37] evaluate, well, if not a new
[00:12:40] beginning, then at least an attempt to launch
[00:12:43] a negotiation process: where are we now, where are the American
[00:12:47] efforts now, why do they need this? And
[00:12:50] what are, frankly, the chances?
[00:12:53] I will not assess the chances.
[00:12:55] Negotiation efforts are being made, indeed our
[00:12:59] American partners sincerely want to
[00:13:02] help with this, unlike the Europeans. Here at the
[00:13:05] UN, do you feel any, well, even a minimal change, if not
[00:13:09] in their rhetoric, then at least in their behavior? I
[00:13:13] think it would be fair to say that I
[00:13:16] feel tired of this question, including from the
[00:13:19] sponsors of Kyiv, they are forced to ritually support
[00:13:22] this topic on... Good triumphs over evil, a work by
[00:13:55] Zurab Tsereteli, another Russian sculpture at the UN.
[00:13:58] The serpent is made of elements of medium-range missiles,
[00:14:01] Soviet SS-20s, American
[00:14:05] Pershings, symbolizing the INF
[00:14:07] Treaty. The treaty the US withdrew from in
[00:14:11] 2019. Time and again, agreements with
[00:14:15] Americans collapse, the last thing that
[00:14:18] collapsed was the spirit of Anchorage, or not, or is it still alive,
[00:14:22] judging by recent
[00:14:26] events, by the visit of American commissioners to Moscow,
[00:14:30] probably, they
[00:14:32] were driven by this spirit and did arrive
[00:14:35] there, but as for this
[00:14:38] sculpture, indeed a gift
[00:14:41] of modern Russia, the author is the famous
[00:14:44] Tsereteli, it symbolizes agreements in the field of arms
[00:14:48] control and disarmament, unfortunately,
[00:14:51] this system has been almost completely destroyed
[00:14:53] by the American side. Well, you said that they are actively
[00:14:57] rearming, the news of the past day was a real sensation,
[00:15:00] where they announced that they have already put weapons into space,
[00:15:04] we have a treaty that
[00:15:06] limits weapons in space, not the first deployment of weapons in
[00:15:10] space, yes, there is, so they also declared the moon American
[00:15:14] territory, fragments of rockets, fragments
[00:15:16] of treaties, well, how can you trust them at all, how can you negotiate with them, where
[00:15:20] are the limits? Well, as their president said, trust, but verify, now, unfortunately, the system...
[00:15:24] the system of verification
[00:15:27] is not there, as such, it is essentially
[00:15:30] absent, and there is almost nothing left to verify. In general,
[00:15:34] the romantic era ended, it began here.
[00:17:37] like this bronze figure. Vasily Alekseevich, I could not pass by
[00:17:41] this sculpture, because I saw, probably, this is the only place in
[00:17:45] New York, and rarely anywhere else in the world, where there is still
[00:17:49] a combination of GDR. The sculpture is called
[00:17:52] rising or awakening, very topical.
[00:17:56] I don't know if this can be applied,
[00:17:59] it's like a testament
[00:18:01] to the victory of Alternative for Germany, in
[00:18:04] Saxony-Anhalt, but the fact that...
[00:20:10] about the right of peoples to self-determination, although there was no self-determination, referendum,
[00:20:13] or plebiscite there, there was a decision of parliament, then
[00:20:16] confirmed by the UN International Court of Justice. In the case of
[00:20:19] Crimea, they seized upon the principle of territorial integrity
[00:20:23] of the state. However, they often did not look into the UN Charter at all,
[00:20:26] guided by the right of the strong. The pistol tied in a knot
[00:20:30] by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd in 1980
[00:20:34] was created in memory of his murdered friend, John Lennon. The conflict
[00:20:51] in the Middle East, a war that was supposed to
[00:20:53] end in a very short time from the perspective
[00:20:57] of the Trump administration, is turning into
[00:21:00] another endless US war in the Middle East?
[00:21:04] It seems that the American administration does not
[00:21:07] know how to get out of this
[00:21:11] conflict without losing face, because the goals were stated, they were not
[00:21:15] achieved, Iran did not
[00:21:17] become, did not become.
[00:21:20] another easy walk for them, as it was in other places,
[00:21:23] showed its ability to resist, this huge
[00:21:26] nation, a whole civilization, the Gulf states
[00:21:30] complain about Iranian
[00:21:33] missiles falling on them, Iranian
[00:21:36] missiles. In response to attacks, Americans strike at bases located
[00:21:39] in these countries, and I want to ask a question
[00:21:43] about this, but what, son, did your Yankees help
[00:21:46] you, they were supposed to ensure security, I tell you:
[00:22:50] but here, at least, no one
[00:22:54] approaches me with this question. Returning to the pistol, I wanted to say that, we
[00:22:57] all want, of course, peace, but unfortunately,
[00:23:01] the history of humanity is the history of this,
[00:23:04] but we must do everything in our power to resolve the
[00:23:07] conflicts that are blazing across the world. The planet
[00:23:11] is cracking on the outside, but inside a more
[00:23:14] complex, still not fully understood order is being born, so
[00:23:17] explained. the meaning of his work, the Italian
[00:23:21] sculptor, who called it a sphere within a sphere, it stands
[00:23:24] at the very entrance to the UN, the unipolar
[00:23:27] world is disappearing, the world of colonial post-colonial
[00:23:31] domination, new centers of power are emerging, this
[00:23:33] is known, we hope that from this, from
[00:23:36] this chaos a new cosmos will be born, new, new
[00:23:40] relations between states, which will not be those we see
[00:23:44] now, if you ask me what I want to see the world
[00:23:47] in the future? I want to see the world as
[00:23:50] a universe, existing, its
[00:23:53] community of people, and peace as what in Slavic languages
[00:23:57] is translated by the word peace, that is, the absence of war, but you are not a supporter
[00:24:00] of the popular concept, for example, among the current US administration, of
[00:24:04] peace through strength, through one strength cannot be achieved, through one strength
[00:24:08] peace cannot be achieved, this is what all human
[00:24:11] history testifies to, the path by which
[00:24:14] in a matter of days UN skyscraper will be entered
[00:24:17] by leaders. Motorcades arrive here,
[00:24:21] we walk with Vasily Nebenzia to the Japanese peace bell
[00:24:24] Bonsho. It was cast from coins donated by children
[00:24:28] from 60 countries. It rings twice a year on the day
[00:24:32] of the spring equinox and before each session of the
[00:24:35] General Assembly. As soon as you started talking about the bell, I immediately
[00:24:38] remembered Hemingway. For whom
[00:24:40] the bell tolls, we need to find out first.
[00:24:44] If it tolls for anyone specifically, we will find out. We will find out
[00:24:48] soon, what do we expect from the session.
[00:25:20] This is naturally all, as it is said, excuse my unparliamentary
[00:25:24] language, to the coffers of the American side, who
[00:25:27] want to rationalize the activities of the UN. The current
[00:25:30] Secretary-General Guterres, by the way, rang the Japanese bell for the last
[00:25:34] time this
[00:25:35] year.
[00:25:39] The new Secretary-General is expected to take office in January
[00:25:42] of next year, the difficult and not always
[00:25:45] clear election process is already in full swing, Nebenzia tells us
[00:25:49] about the abstract.
[00:32:36] Artybash village, Altai Republic, the main gate to
[00:32:39] Lake Teletskoye, the small Baikal of Western Siberia, as it is
[00:32:43] often called in guidebooks.
[00:32:45] Here also originates the Biya, one of the large rivers of the region,
[00:32:49] around, wherever you look, taiga forests.
[00:33:03] Early in the morning it is quiet and peaceful here, but in the evenings
[00:33:07] it is unsafe to be outside. With the onset of
[00:33:10] dusk, locals try not to leave their
[00:33:13] homes.
[00:33:17] We had such a case, my
[00:33:20] wife and I were sitting at home at approximately
[00:33:23] 9:30 PM. That evening, Vitaly and his
[00:33:27] family were already preparing for bed, when unexpectedly, a strange
[00:33:30] noise was heard in the yard,
[00:33:33] I heard my fence starting to break,
[00:33:37] the cracking of boards, you can see them there,
[00:33:40] there they are, and the heavy breathing of this bear, like
[00:33:44] that growl. Vitaly decided
[00:33:48] to act, the plan was short, he wanted to run out
[00:33:51] and shout, thinking the beast would get scared and leave.
[00:33:55] I open the door and see that its paw, up to
[00:33:58] the elbow, is already on the terrace, here
[00:34:02] remained traces of
[00:34:04] claws, I was simply overwhelmed and how
[00:34:07] I shouted at it
[00:34:10] and closed the door, holding the door
[00:34:14] very tightly. And I felt how this large
[00:34:17] body, it ran across the porch and went
[00:34:21] to another part of the plot, it climbed out through
[00:34:24] the fence there. The bear did not just climb over the fence,
[00:34:28] it broke several wooden sections with its paws
[00:34:31] to get through. Vitaly called emergency
[00:34:34] services, hunters and gamekeepers
[00:34:37] arrived, inspected the area, but the predator was no longer
[00:34:41] nearby. They walk around here all the time and.
[00:34:59] not far from their house is an animal trail, you can see characteristic flattened grass, fresh tracks are visible, and if you see such a trail, it's better to leave it, it's better to leave this trail,
[00:35:03] because well, you can meet a
[00:35:05] bear.
[00:35:08] Vitaly is not a hunter, he has no gun, so to somehow
[00:35:11] protect himself after that incident he installed from the forest side.
[00:35:15] they detect the approach of wild
[00:35:17] animals,
[00:35:22] the most important thing,
[00:35:26] this is the device,
[00:35:30] it's a siren with a motion sensor, so I set it up, if someone
[00:35:33] comes here, it will be heard,
[00:35:37] this is basically a sound horn, it's around
[00:35:40] 120-130 decibels, much stronger than a car
[00:35:45] horn. And pepper, so its
[00:35:49] range is about 5 meters, it sprays, well, accordingly,
[00:35:53] it scares off like a pepper spray but for
[00:35:55] animals.
[00:36:02] That same night, when the animal broke into his house, a tragedy
[00:36:06] occurred nearby on the Biya River bank. At 1 AM, he
[00:36:09] came to the tent, apparently, he probably smelled
[00:36:13] food too, most likely.
[00:36:16] This is the very place where, as locals say, the tent stood,
[00:36:20] further down is a cliff and a river, twenty-five-year-old Snezhanna
[00:36:23] came to rest in Altai from Novosibirsk region, with
[00:36:27] her young man, the day before he proposed
[00:36:30] to her. Tourists were presumably warned that bear encounters in
[00:36:34] Turachaksky district had become more frequent, but the young people
[00:36:37] probably underestimated the danger, the girl could not
[00:36:40] be saved.
[00:36:41] The village of Artybash, Lake Teletskoye and
[00:36:46] the surrounding areas are all tourist spots. Nature lovers
[00:36:49] like to come here. Part of the Altai Biosphere
[00:36:52] Reserve is also located here. All eco-routes
[00:36:56] of the reserve are currently
[00:36:59] closed for visits, the reason is the same,
[00:37:02] increased activity of brown bears, but within the
[00:37:05] territory there is a small settlement, Yaylyu, where primarily
[00:37:09] reserve workers live. Tatyana and
[00:37:12] Roman are among them, they track the number of animals,
[00:37:15] observe their movements, and mark their
[00:37:18] resting places. Now we are walking along
[00:37:22] one of the infiltration routes, along one.
[00:37:25] to confuse,
[00:38:27] here is the camera trap itself, Roman
[00:38:29] is reviewing what was captured this
[00:38:33] time, well, the very first shot,
[00:38:36] recorded a bear
[00:38:39] passing through, this is the twelfth,
[00:38:42] eighth, well, this one is quite
[00:38:45] large,
[00:38:49] for now the main food of the bears here in the reserve
[00:38:52] are gardens, old apple and pear trees, planted back in the
[00:38:55] fifties...
[00:39:27] Yuri Nikolaevich, a biologist-hunter, has been observing brown
[00:39:30] bears for 35 years, he says this year is not
[00:39:34] anomalous, but very difficult. due to a fodder shortage in the
[00:39:37] taiga. This year, there are no pine nuts,
[00:39:40] in Siberia, brown bears mainly
[00:39:43] fatten up, accumulate fat for the
[00:39:47] winter, and this is on pine nuts,
[00:39:50] which are their main food. If there are
[00:39:53] none, they look for alternatives, but...
[00:39:57] in recent decades, they have started looking for alternatives not in
[00:40:01] nature, but with
[00:40:03] humans.
[00:40:06] 2026 is not the first difficult year in terms of food for
[00:40:10] bears. Yuri Nikolaevich recalls similar situations,
[00:40:13] the problem is that if a bear once tasted something delicious somewhere, he
[00:40:17] remembers the way to that
[00:40:19] place for a long time.
[00:40:22] He lives up to 40 years, he can completely, he has a good memory, that
[00:40:26] is. In 2008, he came here, he
[00:40:29] ate, then there was 2014,
[00:40:33] 2018, then the years were more
[00:40:36] mild, but there were pine nuts, but very few, and
[00:40:40] he was not sated, and he still came here, to the
[00:40:44] village, he came,
[00:40:47] step back, step back,
[00:40:49] a nightmare, if there is food in the taiga, the bear
[00:40:53] prefers to avoid people, says Kalinkin, and the fact that in hungry years
[00:40:56] the animal goes to feed in settlements, is often the fault of humans themselves. Many
[00:41:00] people go into the
[00:41:04] taiga to collect pine nuts, they
[00:41:07] leave behind a lot
[00:41:09] of food scraps, there
[00:41:12] are uncleaned camps, all this habituates
[00:41:16] the bear to human food, that
[00:41:19] is, at tourist bases they even feed them, sometimes at
[00:41:22] some specially, so that they can take selfies or something
[00:41:25] similar, this is certainly not...
[00:41:53] A reserve is a specially protected area, here
[00:41:56] hunting and shooting of animals, including bears, are prohibited,
[00:42:00] so all that employees and residents of the village of Yailiu can do to protect themselves
[00:42:03] is to control the approaches of predators to houses,
[00:42:06] so that they can hide in time. In addition to camera traps,
[00:42:10] thermal imagers are actively
[00:42:12] used for observations.
[00:42:15] Well, they rest under the canopy and cedar trees, under fir trees,
[00:42:18] now it's actually very difficult to see them with a thermal imager, well, one
[00:42:22] bear was found after all by us, it's
[00:42:25] a bear cub, well, it's sitting in a tree, as
[00:42:29] bear cubs are supposed to, but if an encounter with a bear still
[00:42:32] happened, then improvised special means are used,
[00:42:36] as practice has shown, the most effective are...
[00:42:44] It's certainly at a short distance, but the bear will definitely not
[00:42:47] approach.
[00:42:50] A curfew is in effect on the territory of the reserve. With the onset of
[00:42:53] darkness, residents of the village of Yaili do not go out into the streets. They also
[00:42:57] carefully remove all garbage, food scraps are disposed
[00:43:01] of in special containers, inaccessible to
[00:43:04] bears. This is how they look. No one
[00:43:07] gets in here, first of all, it has to be.
[00:44:12] Nikolay Maksimychev is an amateur hunter, he's been going to the
[00:44:14] taiga to hunt animals since childhood, for more than 30 years.
[00:44:18] To meet a bear, you had to travel very far,
[00:44:22] deep into the taiga, and my parents, uncles, talked about it,
[00:44:26] there was a whole story, when there was a bear, they went 30
[00:44:30] kilometers, and that's where they found it.
[00:44:33] Now there are many more predators, you don't need to search, they come
[00:44:36] to the villages themselves. Here, I'm giving you a cookie.
[00:44:40] Want a cookie? The bear broke down fences and ran from
[00:44:44] one plot to another, where it ate a pear. Hunters believe that
[00:44:47] such bear behavior is associated not only with the poor cedar harvest, but
[00:44:51] also with a strong increase in the population in recent years. Since
[00:44:55] the moment when our legislation changed, we
[00:44:58] no longer had collective farm animals, when there were no longer staff
[00:45:02] hunters who had a plan of tasks, no one
[00:45:05] practically reacted to the bear and now there is a
[00:45:09] large overpopulation, hunting for
[00:45:12] bears is difficult and dangerous, says Nikolay, and the harvested animal, due
[00:45:15] to its specifics, is not very in demand on
[00:45:18] the market,
[00:45:20] the bear is omnivorous, it eats carrion, it likes
[00:45:23] to kill an animal, bury it, for example, yes,
[00:45:27] it rotted, when practically every third bear is sick,
[00:45:30] well, therefore, there is no
[00:45:33] value for it now for anyone, it is hunted,
[00:45:36] he is now
[00:45:39] part of the duty brigade of hunters, together with colleagues they
[00:45:42] survey the surroundings, in their village Dmitriyevka bears also
[00:45:46] regularly visit, sometimes in daytime. Lyubov
[00:45:50] Afanasyeva saw the predator near the kindergarten, she filmed it on video
[00:45:53] through the window of the shop where she works. A small
[00:45:57] bear cub ran here, went to
[00:46:00] the garden, ran there and then ran
[00:46:04] away again, and periodically comes out, during the day
[00:46:07] a bear cub comes out, it's not big,
[00:46:10] but it comes to the village.
[00:46:13] Predators, but already adults, were seen at the local apiary, the clumsy ones
[00:46:17] visited for honey. If he doesn't try it,
[00:46:21] he won't come here, but if he just tried it, then no matter
[00:46:25] what you do, he will still come, visit, well, up to the point that
[00:46:29] you won't spend the night, we even turned on the light, and he still
[00:46:32] came even in the light, he was visible, here in
[00:46:36] the district for many years the family of Galina Ivanova works, they have
[00:46:40] their own apiary, honey is regularly brought to
[00:46:42] the market, yes, bears are everywhere now,
[00:46:46] you drive home, two can cross the
[00:46:49] road, a mother constantly walks here, with
[00:46:52] cubs, but she's a bit old, she doesn't come here,
[00:46:56] there are a lot of young ones.
[00:47:00] Dmitriyevka is not a remote village, there are about 800
[00:47:03] residents here, a school, a kindergarten, a library, a club, people
[00:47:06] keep livestock, grow vegetables, fruits, work,
[00:47:10] normal life, the order of which is disturbed this season
[00:47:13] by bears. If before the bear only walked near the village, it did not
[00:47:17] enter the village itself, then this year it already,
[00:47:20] specifically in Dmitriyevka, in private subsidiary farms, it ruined
[00:47:24] evidence, in the neighboring village of Vudavka it also entered
[00:47:28] gardens. The authorities took measures, a curfew was introduced,
[00:47:32] raids were organized, the school schedule was
[00:47:35] changed. At the municipal
[00:47:38] district level, by decision of the emergency
[00:47:41] commission, it was decided that in the evening,
[00:47:45] from 8:00 p.m.,
[00:47:47] our children should not be on the street. To understand
[00:47:51] the scale of the problem, we turned to one of the leading bear specialists in
[00:47:55] Russia, Mikhail Arsenyevich Krechmar, zoologist,
[00:47:59] hunting expert, candidate of biological sciences, writer and
[00:48:02] journalist of the Far East, since 2012, editor-in-chief
[00:48:06] of the Russian hunting journal, he has been studying Brown
[00:48:09] bears since 1986. Statistics
[00:48:13] concerning the number of bears
[00:48:15] is a very
[00:48:17] relative thing,
[00:48:20] personally, I don't believe it at all. But
[00:48:23] there are some indirect indicators by which
[00:48:26] one can judge that the number of bears has
[00:48:30] increased by about three times in our
[00:48:33] country since the late 1980s. According to official
[00:48:37] data from the Ministry of Natural Resources, as of 2026, there are almost
[00:48:40] 308 thousand brown bears in Russia. In
[00:48:44] 1990, there were about
[00:48:46] 133.
[00:48:48] The main population is concentrated in Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk.
[00:49:22] then you, then you can say there are
[00:49:26] 75, or you can say there are 125, in both cases you will
[00:49:30] not be lying. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, this year
[00:49:34] the situation is not abnormal, usually 20-30 incidents
[00:49:37] occur per year, in 2025 there were
[00:49:40] 34 cases, in 2024 -
[00:49:44] 19. Mikhail Krechmar provides his
[00:49:47] data. We have between 30 and 80
[00:49:50] people dying from bears,
[00:49:52] now, of course, it feels like
[00:49:56] a big trouble has occurred,
[00:49:59] many bears are numerous and so on, but now
[00:50:02] we are on the verge of
[00:50:06] big
[00:50:08] problems. Irkutsk region - gardening
[00:50:11] partnership, in summer families live here, come for berries,
[00:50:15] mushrooms and quietness, but this year they didn't get a full
[00:50:19] rest, bears came out to people and...
[00:51:32] Olga believes that bears are attracted to dachas not only by berries in
[00:51:35] the gardens, but also by the state of common dumps, they are overflowing, and
[00:51:39] also food waste from the plots themselves, in this garden there
[00:51:43] were watermelon rinds, there, well, and the rinds
[00:51:46] there, well, that's generally and he sat and ate them,
[00:51:50] such a munching sound was heard, probably all over... Bears are seen here
[00:51:53] on different streets, on Kedrovaya, on Osinovaya, on Vinogradnaya. Many
[00:51:56] vacationers left back for the city.
[00:52:00] In the chat, they constantly write that now
[00:52:03] they are afraid to let their children play
[00:52:05] outside, that they are afraid
[00:52:09] to go to the dacha, they are afraid.
[00:52:22] The situation in Buryatia is serious now, here bears approaching
[00:52:25] people are recorded daily, the authorities call
[00:52:28] it a mass phenomenon, almost fifty calls in
[00:52:32] just one day, and this is not just an appearance. This year,
[00:52:35] bears attacked people in the republic, and he bites my legs,
[00:52:39] just like that, he grabs and bites,
[00:52:43] just like that, he grabs like that,
[00:52:46] and I only have one
[00:52:50] thought in my head, how to get rid of him, it's just
[00:52:53] that, I'm trying to hit him in the eye with my right hand,
[00:52:57] but my reaction is an ionic reaction, it's like
[00:53:00] earth and sky, in short, he shakes his head and apparently
[00:53:04] he's like that.
[00:53:06] That's the only thing noted, but there's nothing, everything's
[00:53:09] fine, that's it, and I start
[00:53:12] shouting, and my voice is loud,
[00:53:16] a good voice. Sergey Georgievich was admitted to the surgery
[00:53:19] department in early September, with deep lacerations after a bear
[00:53:23] attack, but he was lucky to escape, the other two cases,
[00:53:27] encounters of residents with predators ended fatally, the reasons
[00:53:30] for such bear behavior are the same as throughout Siberia, yes,
[00:53:34] absolutely...
[00:54:21] during the rutting season, he was shot, but for him, a bear is not just a trophy, it's an adversary
[00:54:24] whom he knows well and explains, the reason is not
[00:54:27] so much hunger, the bear has forgotten how to fear
[00:54:30] humans. In the nineties, in the eighties, there were commercial
[00:54:34] hunters. Staff hunters, they were in the forests, they sat in
[00:54:38] the forest, and hunted squirrels, there were a lot of
[00:54:41] squirrel hunters, and a lot of sable hunters, they hunted
[00:54:44] sable, and the bear encountered
[00:54:48] humans in the forest. Now, uh,
[00:54:51] there are few sable hunters, and it turns out that there aren't many
[00:54:55] people in the forest, and this bear came down, he didn't see
[00:54:59] people, and people for a bear are, well,
[00:55:02] like - a biological chain. one
[00:55:05] food source and advice from an experienced hunter in case
[00:55:09] an encounter with a bear still happened, do not
[00:55:11] panic, the most important thing,
[00:55:15] if possible, slowly, slowly step back,
[00:55:18] do not make sudden
[00:55:20] movements, this bear, he will
[00:55:24] in any case react
[00:55:27] to a sharp movement, to
[00:55:30] running, if a person ran, then that's for his
[00:55:34] prey. He will catch up, the bear will catch up.
[00:55:53] While bears are coming out to dachas and villages in Siberia, an event
[00:55:56] almost ended in tragedy in the remote taiga of Khakassia. A predator
[00:56:00] appeared at the hermitage of Agafia Lykova in the Khakassky
[00:56:03] Reserve.
[00:56:05] Gavril Karpovna was doing chores
[00:56:14] outside her hut, when she suddenly noticed a large animal on
[00:56:17] the hillside, "He's sitting on the mountain,"
[00:56:21] they tried to drive
[00:56:24] the bear away with firecrackers and shots, he was hiding somewhere
[00:56:28] nearby, he
[00:56:30] saw us.
[00:56:35] ran away. Now, near Agafia Lykova's hut,
[00:56:38] volunteers are on duty around the clock, helping her with
[00:56:41] household chores and making sure the bear doesn't come too close to the
[00:56:44] hermit's dwelling.
[00:56:48] The main thing now, say experts, is that the peak
[00:56:51] of clashes and unexpected encounters with bears is yet to come. I wouldn't
[00:56:54] want to be a prophet of bad things,
[00:56:58] but it is absolutely certain that the peak
[00:57:01] of conflicts will fall on the
[00:57:05] last weeks before they go into their dens, and on
[00:57:09] the first two weeks after
[00:57:12] the snow cover falls.
[00:57:15] Well, that's just how it always is. If there are still tracks a week after the snow,
[00:57:19] it makes sense to be on alert. The
[00:57:22] Ministry of Natural Resources has already announced a call for proposals from regions on how
[00:57:25] to change hunting laws, hunters demand the removal of
[00:57:29] quotas and the extension of license terms for the entire season. We
[00:57:32] don't have a common understanding of a plan for
[00:57:35] wildlife management, and we must manage it,
[00:57:39] moreover, throughout our country.
[00:57:42] The cold weather is coming soon, then it will become clear: did the bears go
[00:57:46] into their dens or remained as rogues? Mikhail Krechmar
[00:57:49] notes that if in a week or two after the first
[00:57:52] snow one sees bear tracks, one should be on
[00:57:55] guard, the peak has not yet been passed.