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[00:00:54] It's 3:00 AM in Moscow, you're watching the 24-hour news channel
[00:00:58] Russia 24. We are live. Today is
[00:01:01] the Day of the Agricultural and
[00:01:04] Processing Industry Worker. The agricultural sector is one of the most
[00:01:07] dynamic sectors of the modern economy. Russia has become
[00:01:10] a leading grain power. Our
[00:01:13] producers practically fully supply the domestic
[00:01:16] market. Vladimir Putin congratulated agricultural
[00:01:20] workers on their professional holiday.
[00:01:24] Thanks to your energy and dedication to your
[00:01:27] work, Russia firmly holds its position
[00:01:31] as one of the leading producers of agricultural
[00:01:34] products in the world. Even in difficult current conditions,
[00:01:38] the domestic agro-industrial complex operates sustainably and
[00:01:41] stably. You carry out your tasks conscientiously,
[00:01:45] with full dedication.
[00:01:48] You reliably guarantee the food security
[00:01:51] of the country. Recently, large agricultural businesses,
[00:01:54] and especially medium-sized companies and farms,
[00:01:57] have had to face a whole series of difficulties.
[00:02:01] These are caused by sanctions, infrastructural and export
[00:02:04] barriers, and rising costs.
[00:02:08] The state will certainly continue to provide agricultural
[00:02:12] producers with the necessary assistance, promoting
[00:02:15] both the resolution of operational issues related to fuel,
[00:02:19] transportation, product sales, and the provision
[00:02:23] of seed material, and in general, we will continue
[00:02:26] to systematically support the agro-industrial sector,
[00:02:30] which faces large-scale tasks.
[00:02:33] The Russian Embassy in Saudi Arabia is clarifying
[00:02:36] whether there are citizens of our country among those affected by the
[00:02:40] missile strikes on Riyadh International
[00:02:42] Airport. According to the Civil Aviation Authority
[00:02:46] of the Kingdom, 12 people died and more than 300 were injured.
[00:02:49] The airport suspended operations. Passengers and staff were urgently
[00:02:53] evacuated. The Yemeni Houthis claimed responsibility for
[00:02:56] the attack. In response, the Arab coalition stated that it would not
[00:03:00] leave the attack on Riyadh airport unanswered. This
[00:03:03] missile strike was the second in 3 days. The Houthis call their
[00:03:07] actions a response to Saudi bombardments of Yemeni
[00:03:10] territory. The phone conversation between the presidents of Russia
[00:03:14] and the USA is the main news of the last day. Vladimir Putin and
[00:03:17] Donald Trump discussed by phone the prospects
[00:03:20] for resolving the Ukrainian crisis, the situation around
[00:03:24] Iran and challenges for global energy. Moscow confirmed
[00:03:28] its readiness to supply oil, petroleum products to the American and
[00:03:31] world markets. Vladimir Putin noted that this would positively
[00:03:35] affect the entire global economy. The leaders
[00:03:38] confirmed agreements on continuing personal contacts,
[00:03:42] as well as cooperation between presidential administrations,
[00:03:45] special services and other agencies.
[00:03:48] The US President called Zelensky the main obstacle to
[00:03:52] resolving the Ukrainian conflict. According to Trump, Zelensky
[00:03:55] had many opportunities to end
[00:03:58] the war, but he did not wish
[00:05:00] to. with Russia has increased pressure on Ukraine. According to several
[00:05:04] American and British publications, Washington
[00:05:06] threatened to stop providing Kyiv with intelligence
[00:05:10] if Ukraine does not stop strikes on
[00:05:14] Russian oil refineries. More details from Anna
[00:05:16] Voronina. There will be no second day of hysteria
[00:05:20] in Kyiv. The conversation in Miami between the Ukrainian-European delegation
[00:05:24] and Trump's representatives ended prematurely.
[00:05:27] The Ukrainians were told that Trump is lifting sanctions on Russian
[00:05:31] diesel fuel, because Kyiv ignored
[00:05:34] six requests from Washington: not to strike Russian oil refineries.
[00:05:38] Zelensky was enraged and furiously reacted to Trump's statement about
[00:05:41] the deal.
[00:05:52] weakness, to which he received a response from Donald
[00:05:54] Trump.
[00:05:56] Zelensky stated that the diesel fuel deal is a weak
[00:06:00] step from a strong partner that will only prolong the war. We
[00:06:04] are a very strong partner, what do we need for the whole world.
[00:06:07] Diesel is what we need, so we are very happy to conclude
[00:06:10] it. In Kyiv, the deal is not satisfactory. If strikes on
[00:06:14] Russian oil refineries continue, then Zelensky's regime may lose
[00:06:18] a significant part of its support. A Ukrainian official stated that during
[00:06:22] the negotiations, Witkov and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut off
[00:06:25] Ukraine from American intelligence data if it continued
[00:06:29] to ignore Washington's requests. A US official stated that
[00:06:32] Witkov and Kushner informed the Ukrainians that the US is
[00:06:36] a strong partner providing ammunition and intelligence
[00:06:39] data. Therefore, Ukraine should not undertake.
[00:07:12] very, very upset. American journalists and bloggers
[00:07:16] explain the conclusion of the deal by the need to lower fuel
[00:07:19] prices before the elections.
[00:07:22] According to preliminary estimates, the price of diesel fuel will now drop by about
[00:07:26] a dollar. In 2 hours, it has already decreased by about 25
[00:07:29] cents. Representatives of the Alternative for Germany party note that Merz
[00:07:33] is needlessly ruining the country with anti-Russian sanctions and expensive LNG,
[00:07:37] the reality has already changed. In the foreseeable future, the US
[00:07:40] will ban Ukrainian attacks on the Russian oil industry, the war is effectively
[00:07:44] over, Germany and the EU are completely
[00:07:47] isolated. London's reaction was more than
[00:07:51] predictable. In response to the news of the diesel deal, they
[00:07:54] stated that they would continue to pressure Russia and strengthen support
[00:07:58] for Ukraine. The cunning thing is that the main supplier of diesel to
[00:08:01] Britain is the USA. Anna Voronina, Matvey Popov,
[00:08:05] news. In Berlin, thousands of people took to
[00:08:08] an anti-government demonstration, demanding resignations.
[00:08:24] Germany, as well as posters with the inscription "Peace with Russia."
[00:08:28] Merz's rating dropped to a record low level, including
[00:08:31] due to the Chancellor's desire to finance military aid to
[00:08:35] Ukraine instead of solving socio-economic problems in Germany
[00:08:39] itself.
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[00:15:55] a little bit, yes, they're here, there he is,
[00:15:58] tran-tan-tan, in Russia, bears walk in the
[00:16:02] streets. This smile-provoking Western cliché became
[00:16:05] a frightening reality in the autumn of
[00:16:08] 2026.
[00:16:13] Yes, this is concrete madness.
[00:16:15] The clubfoots continue to attack residents of the Irkutsk region,
[00:16:19] Krasnoyarsk, Altai Krai, and
[00:16:21] Khakassia. It's something else
[00:16:24] entirely. Bears have also become increasingly common to come out to
[00:16:28] people in the Urals, in the area of Ivdel, Sverdlovsk
[00:16:31] region. A furious predator wandered into a parking lot and damaged
[00:16:35] about ten cars. tried to push
[00:16:38] everywhere. According to the Ministry of Natural
[00:16:42] Resources of our country, over the past 36 years, the number of
[00:16:46] brown predators in Russia has increased almost 2.5
[00:16:49] times.
[00:16:54] If in 1990 the State Committee for Nature
[00:16:57] of the Soviet Union registered 130,000
[00:17:01] bears, then in 2026 there are already almost
[00:17:05] 308,000. And this is the case when it's not
[00:17:09] chickens, but bears that are counted in autumn. Currently, in
[00:17:12] Khakassia, there are 2,246
[00:17:16] clumsy predators. Since 2022,
[00:17:19] their numbers have increased by 609 individuals.
[00:17:23] These are official data from the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic;
[00:17:26] unofficial ones are not known to anyone. Hunters say that in
[00:17:30] reality, this figure is higher, at least by 20 percent.
[00:17:33] Bears come out onto the main road.
[00:17:43] Footage of chance encounters, filmed on mobile phones, filled
[00:17:46] the internet. There's another car now, it's going to stop and
[00:17:50] film him, it's going to throw
[00:17:52] him food.
[00:17:56] Some are ready to feed the teddy bears from their hands, others
[00:18:00] warn of mortal danger. You feed him, you
[00:18:03] feed him, damn it, and then he comes to people, you have to throw
[00:18:07] him a candy. Another piece of bread, where are people's brains, damn it? And then he
[00:18:10] goes into villages, starts walking through
[00:18:13] garbage dumps like this and tearing up dogs and
[00:18:17] weaker people. The bear is reclaiming new
[00:18:20] territories from people.
[00:18:27] The struggle for living space is most active in
[00:18:31] Siberia and the Far
[00:18:32] East.
[00:18:39] In the Republic of Khakassia, the bears have completely lost their minds. In
[00:18:43] the town of Obaza, they are not just roaming the streets, they have
[00:18:46] literally besieged the town. You know, probably
[00:18:50] to put it simply, there are just too many bears in the taiga.
[00:18:53] The demographic growth occurred against the backdrop of a poor harvest of cedar
[00:18:57] nuts. Well, the bear's main food source is
[00:19:00] nuts, that's how it builds up fat, it turns out, but this year with the nuts
[00:19:04] it's a disaster, there are no nuts. The bear
[00:19:07] is hungry, it won't gain much fat on grass, it turns
[00:19:11] out,
[00:19:12] so
[00:19:15] they visit, the quality of life in the taiga has fallen below
[00:19:19] rock bottom, hungry predators descend from the
[00:19:22] mountains to populated areas, looking out the window, he stopped right
[00:19:26] here, right here, he looked
[00:19:29] left, he looked right, I hid
[00:19:33] behind the blanket,
[00:19:36] ran away to the children's room, my little one wasn't sleeping
[00:19:39] anymore, the older one was sleeping, bears are messing around in the yards
[00:19:43] of local residents and farm gardens, he broke the fence there and
[00:19:47] he broke it there too, so almost every night, raids on
[00:19:51] the city are still going on without casualties, in Obazene
[00:19:54] not a single case of animal attack on
[00:19:57] a person has been recorded, but this is not because bears behave like
[00:20:00] well-behaved guests, but because local volunteer hunters
[00:20:04] stop the animal at the approaches to the settlement.
[00:20:07] point, bears have been eliminated here many times,
[00:20:11] about seven individuals were eliminated here in this
[00:20:14] garden. The liquidation operation began in August
[00:20:17] and will end with the onset of cold weather, when the bear
[00:20:20] goes into hibernation, or rather, if
[00:20:23] it does. I would not want a bear to eat our
[00:20:27] children who are going to school, so I am doing
[00:20:30] this. At night, hunting in the morning to
[00:20:33] work, how the volunteer squad lives,
[00:20:36] which stood up for the opposite.
[00:20:41] What birds hunt
[00:20:43] bears?
[00:20:47] Together with the hunters, we walked 160 km.
[00:21:27] In a besieged city, this is what the fortress wall looks like. This
[00:21:31] week, the bear broke through the fence,
[00:21:34] it was at night, and went for a walk here on
[00:21:38] the territory. The broken wooden fence, hastily boarded
[00:21:41] up with planks, the bear has taken to the apple orchard
[00:21:45] like a dining room, on an all-inclusive program. The bear
[00:21:48] broke through the fence, well,
[00:21:52] and apparently decided to feast on apples here,
[00:21:55] that is, this happened again, it was
[00:21:59] before, well, there are still traces here on the fence, I think,
[00:22:02] from claws, from the world of wild nature, the farm
[00:22:06] is protected only by a flimsy fence, which a
[00:22:09] two-hundred-kilogram bear breaks through without noticing. Well, most
[00:22:12] likely it was a big bear, because before that there were
[00:22:16] cases where smaller bears came out, they usually either
[00:22:19] dig under, or break one or two planks, here a whole
[00:22:23] section is broken out, most likely it was a large bear, he just knocked
[00:22:27] down the section and passed through. Denis Valchuk, the chief rescuer
[00:22:30] of the city, whom the locals pray to as a savior
[00:22:34] from the hungry beast, we call each other, if you notice
[00:22:36] something, we call immediately, there were cases when we called, that
[00:22:40] the bear, I'm telling you, was walking in the field, that's when
[00:22:44] it happened, Denis and his team
[00:22:47] of hunters - starting in August, the bears began to come out,
[00:22:57] began to break the fence,
[00:22:59] eat apples, so, well,
[00:23:02] citizens turned to
[00:23:05] us, this situation is repeating itself, as
[00:23:09] last year. The difference from last year in the number of
[00:23:12] bears coming to Obaza for prey, last
[00:23:15] year only eight individuals were eliminated
[00:23:19] in the city this year, here alone there are
[00:23:22] seven.
[00:23:38] From a five-meter watchtower, the apple orchard is visible as if on a platter. In the optics
[00:23:42] of the carbine, 30 hectares and approaches to the farm.
[00:23:45] The
[00:23:50] bear will not immediately go to the garden from afar, it will feed
[00:23:54] somewhere, then go away, rest
[00:23:58] during the day, digest, then come back to the garden in the evening,
[00:24:01] and continue to feed. This is a hunting
[00:24:04] ambush over a watering barrel, a convenient observation
[00:24:07] post and firing line, from which wild taiga predators
[00:24:11] are hunted. Well, in August we mostly
[00:24:13] guarded almost every night since
[00:24:17] the bears started coming out into the garden. In September
[00:24:20] we also guarded, so this ambush is personally
[00:24:24] inhabited by you, yes, of course, and personally by me,
[00:24:27] hunters, everyone has been there
[00:24:29] on it.
[00:24:34] Speaking about the bear invasion, the guard of the apple orchard
[00:24:37] Valera speaks frankly. The fact that they came to the city,
[00:24:40] after all, their number is increasing, well, a bear is
[00:24:44] an animal that is territorial, that is,
[00:24:48] they have their own territory. And apparently there was no more
[00:24:51] room for them in the forest, and they crawled here, but out of
[00:24:54] desperation. Sipping bitter coffee,
[00:24:57] Valera speculates about the economic reasons for
[00:25:00] the bear invasion, it's unprofitable, I think, it has become
[00:25:03] for hunters to do this, I heard that
[00:25:07] a permit for 15,000 costs
[00:25:09] exactly for one bear, it is given for
[00:25:13] one month, if you don't even
[00:25:16] kill this bear, this permit expires for you. At the farm... Valera
[00:25:20] works in shifts with his father, two days on, two days off. The working day is from
[00:25:24] eight to eight, then he and his wife lock themselves in
[00:25:27] the guardhouse from the bears. Well, he says, well, the animal is still
[00:25:31] dangerous, that is, we don't know what's in his head,
[00:25:34] anything can happen. Self-defense
[00:25:37] means are always at hand.
[00:25:41] This is, it turns out, it also repels with a sound
[00:25:44] signal, a loud one. This is our
[00:25:48] flare gun, so... We load it, shoot it into the
[00:25:51] sky, it also emits a loud
[00:25:55] bang. When night falls in the city,
[00:25:58] the bears wake up, and the hunters go out to
[00:26:01] ambush. And... at night, when you go out, what do you take with
[00:26:04] you, tea, coffee, any sandwiches? Well,
[00:26:08] usually you don't get carried away with heavy food at night, because
[00:26:11] it's noise, all these unnecessary movements, here you take coffee, yes, or tea
[00:26:15] or coffee, so that you can drink tea there,
[00:26:19] when you might get a little cold at night, well, otherwise
[00:26:22] hunting equipment is with you, everything, weapons,
[00:26:25] ammunition, night vision
[00:26:28] device, well, and the scope, respectively
[00:26:31] also on... the hunters' arsenal in August of this year, when the city
[00:26:35] was besieged by bears, a quadcopter appeared. When we
[00:26:39] have the opportunity to use
[00:26:42] a quadcopter, accordingly we
[00:26:45] make flights over the gardens here and the adjacent
[00:26:48] territory, well, and accordingly then
[00:26:51] we don't put a hunter on ambush. A bird with a
[00:26:55] thermal imager in Obaza is more valuable than any red-listed
[00:26:59] one. There is only one drone for the entire city, whose flight is monitored by...
[00:27:19] And why did we say that we need it not only because of the bear, but also because of the fact that we can do a flyby, check if there is anything nearby, it is clear that they go fast,
[00:27:22] but still, we can organize ourselves so that we will
[00:27:25] fly over the borders of Obaza at some interval. That's it, the borders are
[00:27:29] locked. Volunteer hunters keep guard day and night. The head
[00:27:33] of the city and the chief rescuer of Obaza are always in touch,
[00:27:36] with each other and with law enforcement agencies. He calls me
[00:27:39] at night, we work like this, he finishes at night, sends me
[00:27:43] a report, I write to the residents at 4 am, they all say: "When do
[00:27:47] you all sleep?" I say, "Almost never." And in the morning we all
[00:27:50] go in to see where the bear is. Reports
[00:27:53] of eliminated wild predators are updated daily. Within
[00:27:57] a day, before our eyes, four animals were destroyed
[00:28:00] in the city. The time was 4:30.
[00:28:04] He stopped right here. Alyona was woken up by her
[00:28:07] inner voice and the barking of dogs. She heard the dogs barking,
[00:28:10] it turns out, where the cars are parked, the dogs barked very loudly
[00:28:14] there, but they barked not as usual, but completely
[00:28:17] differently. Pushing back the curtain, the young mother saw
[00:28:21] complete savagery. He stopped right here, literally
[00:28:24] right here, looked left, looked
[00:28:28] right, I hid behind
[00:28:32] the...
[00:29:03] This year they live with an adjustment for the bear threat. Well, I go
[00:29:06] out with them, I don't go out with the little one at all. I let
[00:29:10] the older one out when I go to feed the dogs or the farm,
[00:29:14] that's it, otherwise no, we're at home. So you don't let them out on the street?
[00:29:17] No, no, it's scary, what street can
[00:29:20] there be? At home, Alyona and the children are guarded by
[00:29:24] an East European Shepherd, Chara,
[00:29:26] and a mutt, Betty. As a self-defense weapon,
[00:29:30] the woman bought firecrackers. We already with...
[00:30:32] services of the city of Obaza, communal accidents, broken
[00:30:35] wires, fires, floods, bears on the street, this is for
[00:30:39] him.
[00:30:43] A specialist in problem solving, along with local
[00:30:46] men, goes out on a night
[00:30:48] hunt.
[00:30:54] Warning signs flash past the window, gravel
[00:30:57] throw,
[00:31:00] dangerous roadside.
[00:31:03] The sign "Caution, bears" is not there for some reason.
[00:31:07] A very dangerous animal, which is not
[00:31:10] comparable to human strength, much stronger
[00:31:13] than a human, who...
[00:31:16] if you don't have a firearm or any other means
[00:31:20] to destroy it, you won't cope with it, it's very dangerous. About
[00:31:23] what is dangerous and what is not, Sergey Emayakov knows firsthand:
[00:31:26] 24 years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he retired
[00:31:30] with the rank of major. For a long
[00:31:33] time, the population of brown bears
[00:31:37] was not properly regulated
[00:31:39] in
[00:31:41] our country,
[00:31:43] apparently, or in Siberia. The big boss
[00:31:47] fights the bear invasion not in his office, drawing up schedules
[00:31:50] and reports, but with a carbine in his hands on a night hunt. If
[00:31:54] he is wounded, he, well, probably on
[00:31:57] adrenaline, he doesn't feel pain,
[00:32:00] he is in a state
[00:32:03] of affect, he can
[00:32:06] run for another dozen
[00:32:09] meters with bullet wounds to his internal organs,
[00:32:13] and at the same time... breaking everything in its path,
[00:32:17] destroying, that is, there have been repeated such cases
[00:32:21] already, when he ran up to him, they approached him, when he was dying, he already had a shot heart,
[00:32:24] internal organs, well, not to mention
[00:32:28] the body, while the drone with a thermal imager circles over
[00:32:31] the city in search of a bear, the retired major tells how he
[00:32:35] neutralized a particularly dangerous criminal,
[00:32:38] the guys were coming from that side, Denis Olegovich, he
[00:32:41] was watching us from the quadcopter, well,
[00:32:45] the bear, where it was heading, on the radio,
[00:32:49] he coordinated our actions,
[00:32:52] fly to the left, so that they could be seen
[00:32:55] and the apple tree, we stood without
[00:32:58] light, that is, in pitch darkness,
[00:33:02] so as not to scare the bear, and he on the radio
[00:33:05] says, you light up, that is, it means, ignitable underbarrel
[00:33:09] flashlights, that is, we produce shots,
[00:33:13] outright we... failed to destroy
[00:33:16] the bear, the wounded animal rushed at the hunters,
[00:33:19] the bear turns around and runs towards us, that
[00:33:23] is, understanding that we pose a danger to it,
[00:33:27] that with the goal, well, as
[00:33:30] they say, that it is 3-4 m,
[00:33:34] well, probably something to kill, an instant, everything
[00:33:37] was over, it was a male,
[00:33:41] a large male,
[00:33:43] which was already wounded by some other
[00:33:47] hunter before us, that is, we extracted
[00:33:50] a bullet
[00:33:52] from its shoulder blade, a 16-gauge bullet it was, which
[00:33:56] was in the meat, which had already rotted his
[00:34:00] shoulder blade. The wounded animal perceived
[00:34:03] a human as a threat and as prey. My personal
[00:34:07] opinion, if it once tasted
[00:34:10] human, it will never stop, as long as it's alive, it
[00:34:13] will try. again to taste this
[00:34:16] flesh, and what makes a bear
[00:34:19] attack a human for the first time? Well, it's
[00:34:22] a predator's instinct, hunger, well, I think
[00:34:26] these are some main factors that,
[00:34:30] well, it perceives a human as
[00:34:33] prey, it's absolutely not afraid of humans, so that
[00:34:36] the city residents don't become prey, Sergey does what
[00:34:40] he has to, they have nowhere to go, there are too many of them, they want to take our
[00:34:43] territory.
[00:35:15] who got the bear, he takes
[00:35:19] the bear for himself
[00:35:22] and disposes of it at his discretion, and have
[00:35:26] you tasted bear meat, what's it like? I
[00:35:29] have tasted it, well,
[00:35:33] meat is meat, at home from the hunt, Sergey is awaited by three
[00:35:37] children and a wife, whose heart is not at peace every time he goes
[00:35:41] after an animal, she is of course worried about this.
[00:35:45] Asks not to take
[00:35:47] unnecessary risks,
[00:35:50] well, she worries.
[00:38:18] When trouble knocked on their door with a heavy bear paw,
[00:38:21] the men started acting on the principle, who if not
[00:38:24] us, safety in Obaza is determined. The number
[00:38:28] of bears that go to the city, and the ability of local authorities
[00:38:31] and hunters to stop them in time, for this
[00:38:34] every day a group of volunteers
[00:38:38] about 10-15 people, those who have a hunting
[00:38:41] license and a heart that aches for the common
[00:38:44] cause. The wives of the city's defenders say it's easier
[00:38:47] to meet a bear on the street than to find her husband
[00:38:51] at home.
[00:39:09] It seems this is the case when their wives, with loaded rifles,
[00:39:23] what's up with you, hi, hi.
[00:39:28] The head of the family is met at the doorstep by his sons David, Denis and wife
[00:39:32] Anna.
[00:39:39] We rarely see my husband at home, practically
[00:39:42] never, rare, rare, rare meetings on
[00:39:46] weekends, because the children are home,
[00:39:48] on weekends, they only see dad on weekends. In the moment
[00:39:52] of meeting, her eyes say more than any words, he sleeps
[00:39:56] very little, of course. I don't know how he endures it,
[00:40:00] the situation is difficult and tense with
[00:40:02] the bears,
[00:40:04] keeps our city completely
[00:40:07] safe, from night hunting Anna meets her husband
[00:40:10] as if from a combat mission, I worry, I still worry
[00:40:14] about the fact that bears are still dangerous
[00:40:17] animals, yes, it's when everything is under control, everyone
[00:40:21] sleeps, the whole city sleeps peacefully, it's
[00:40:24] certainly a big deal, yes, but...
[00:40:57] rough work, second floor, uh-huh, well, in general, everything is in
[00:41:01] process, our dad is constantly working, so everything
[00:41:04] we manage to do, we do,
[00:41:07] we only managed to do the second floor, a good house,
[00:41:10] a loving wife, healthy children, and a plate of hot
[00:41:14] rich cabbage soup with sour cream after night hunting, what else
[00:41:18] is needed for happiness, what are the plans for tonight,
[00:41:21] everything as usual,
[00:41:24] 6 PM briefing, deployment.
[00:41:28] Flew to work with hunters until
[00:41:31] morning, well, as it goes, not
[00:41:35] before two, I think, mom feeds youngest son Denis
[00:41:39] attentively.
[00:42:10] this is more of a service than a job, we are, in general, military
[00:42:13] personnel, our whole life has always passed in such a rhythm,
[00:42:17] yes, Anna, an active sergeant
[00:42:19] of the National Guard, Denis, a retired captain, served in
[00:42:23] the Caucasus, St. Petersburg Military Institute, then
[00:42:27] Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk, worked as chief of staff of a battalion
[00:42:30] of the National Guard troops, in November 2018
[00:42:34] he returned to Obaza, to save the city from emergencies.
[00:42:38] Our dad always transferred.
[00:42:40] he left, and we caught up with the kids, it wasn't easy,
[00:42:44] but we coped with our difficulties, yes, maybe someone won't
[00:42:47] understand us, but nevertheless, probably the most important thing is
[00:42:51] our great, strong love for each other, for
[00:42:55] our children, therefore, thanks to this, we cope with everything,
[00:42:58] we coped, we are coping and we will cope, so we decided
[00:43:02] to take a walk after David,
[00:43:05] snowboarding, in all senses, the whole family
[00:43:09] is in the same boat. Well, generally
[00:43:11] lifelong always for
[00:43:15] children, for children, for family, well,
[00:43:18] naturally, since I live in this
[00:43:22] city, yes, Obaza, it's my hometown, naturally I also
[00:43:26] worry about it, about the citizens, you worry about everyone,
[00:43:29] you still think, like, that everything should be
[00:43:32] fine for everyone, well, you understand that
[00:43:36] everyone has a family, everyone has children,
[00:44:28] such a situation, but we are home here, this is our home, their own home,
[00:44:32] Denis and his team will defend until the last, as long as
[00:44:35] they have strength, but if it is twice as much as
[00:44:39] now, then we...
[00:45:13] The Master of the Taiga changes his residence, moving from the forest
[00:45:16] wilderness to cities, we decided to make a risky journey along
[00:45:20] the Abakan River to find out how the invasion
[00:45:23] of brown predators affected the tourism business of
[00:45:27] Siberia.
[00:45:31] 43 km/h on a boat with a headwind at zero
[00:45:35] feels like -20, the windproof
[00:45:38] winter uniforms of the Ministry of Emergency Situations save us. and a wool hat over
[00:45:42] the balaclava,
[00:45:45] ignoring the icy wind that hits our eyes,
[00:45:49] we enjoy the views of pristine Siberian
[00:45:51] nature,
[00:45:57] the mountains have put on autumn camouflage, the Abakan River
[00:46:00] has become shallow and more dangerous, foaming rapids
[00:46:04] hide warts, as they call stones sticking out of the water in these places, which
[00:46:07] upon... collision can
[00:46:11] become fatal.
[00:46:12] грубными.
[00:46:17] 160 km upstream we cover in
[00:46:20] 4.5 hours, half the way in complete
[00:46:24] darkness.
[00:46:31] A quad bike meets us
[00:46:32] on the shore.
[00:46:38] In the hunting lodge, the frozen film crew from Moscow is awaited by
[00:46:41] the owner of the tourist base and hot tea made from taiga
[00:46:44] herbs.
[00:46:48] Alright guys, welcome to the soup.
[00:47:52] where food is easier to get, there are all sorts of rowanberries, sea buckthorn, there are these
[00:47:56] fruit trees, they climb
[00:47:58] there, the master of the taiga, out of hunger, forgot his pride, started
[00:48:02] behaving like a mongrel, well, it turns out,
[00:48:06] like they climb
[00:48:08] closer to populated areas, maybe
[00:48:12] kill a dog, maybe something else there, rummage in the trash,
[00:48:15] dig in the trash
[00:48:19] cans, they already dig like dogs, experience.
[00:48:22] The hunter says, on an empty stomach a bear will not
[00:48:26] sleep all winter, here what do they have
[00:48:29] grass, on grass you won't gain much fat,
[00:48:32] it's already autumn, they need to eat
[00:48:36] some fat so that they go into hibernation fed
[00:48:40] with fat, they
[00:48:42] cannot do that, emergency news that
[00:48:46] the browns are coming, for a commercial hunter it's the
[00:48:49] same news as a change in weather, he...
[00:49:53] just something came to my mind,
[00:49:55] everyone has a base, we don't, yes,
[00:49:59] it's beautiful here, such
[00:50:03] amazing places, the bare peaks are nearby, everything is like that,
[00:50:07] the river is so winding, like a snake, it
[00:50:10] goes like this, well, the places here are beautiful, good,
[00:50:14] cheerful, rumors about hunting lodges,
[00:50:17] lost on the picturesque banks of the Abaza, spread like
[00:50:21] an echo,
[00:50:24] well, we mostly invest, well, gradually people
[00:50:26] come, like, there's a little
[00:50:30] movement, and where do they come from? Well,
[00:50:33] from different places, from Kemerovo,
[00:50:36] from Moscow they sometimes come,
[00:50:39] from all over Russia they gradually come and
[00:50:42] come.
[00:50:46] Morning in the pine forest begins with an excursion, tourists
[00:50:50] are awaited by cedar hunting lodges. two
[00:50:52] stories high,
[00:50:57] fire in the stove,
[00:51:00] Russian banya, and also extreme quad bike rides.
[00:51:15] Sergey Becker brought us to the base in the protected forests,
[00:51:18] with whom we met by chance on a hunt. Right there.
[00:51:22] I just climbed the hill,
[00:51:25] I see a silhouette, looks like a bear, I looked through the scope,
[00:51:28] it's a bear, the first shot was accurate to
[00:51:32] the head, a hunter, entrepreneur, local
[00:51:35] deputy, who, along with all concerned citizens, went on the warpath
[00:51:39] with the bear, well, at the moment it's about protecting the city,
[00:51:42] protecting his children, well, and
[00:51:46] so it's a hobby, the people's chosen one is preparing a trap
[00:51:49] for the bear in the form of a legislative initiative. I think,
[00:51:53] allow hunting it all year
[00:51:55] for free, that's the best
[00:51:58] help. The official does not fight the bear with other people's
[00:52:01] hands, but takes a carbine and goes to protect the city.
[00:52:06] I think we will conquer this problem together with
[00:52:09] the state, if they allow us to hunt
[00:52:13] bears, at least just like with wolves,
[00:52:16] so that there is regulation for bears. For him,
[00:52:20] the taiga is not scenery in which a documentary
[00:52:24] drama with bears unfolds, but a living participant, perhaps even
[00:52:27] the main character. A real hunter's
[00:52:30] attitude towards nature is to
[00:52:34] use it. and exactly as much as you
[00:52:38] need for
[00:52:40] life, that is, as a true
[00:52:42] man, I
[00:52:44] believe that a man should go and get himself a piece
[00:52:48] of meat, when the meat runs
[00:52:51] out, go and get more,
[00:52:54] naturally at the time when hunting is allowed,
[00:52:57] to open the season for hunting animals, Sergey is awaited at
[00:53:01] home by six children, his wife, three children.
[00:53:05] Dad and
[00:53:05] Mom.
[00:53:09] The whole family of Siberians makes pelmeni with maral meat
[00:53:13] filling. You're going to sculpt now,
[00:53:16] thank you. Looking at her eldest daughter Velina, the
[00:53:20] others don't fall behind. Seven-year-old Milana and three-year-old Sasha.
[00:53:23] As they say, you can't smudge genes
[00:53:26] with your finger. Fascinated by family history, he drew
[00:53:30] a tree, going back
[00:53:32] 300 years. So.
[00:53:36] Ancestors came from Germany, from Lower
[00:53:40] Saxony,
[00:53:44] to the Volga, to the city of Engels,
[00:53:47] Golovolobovka, in forty-one
[00:53:51] all were exiled to
[00:53:54] Siberia, to the village
[00:53:56] Son,
[00:53:59] from there they moved to Malyye Arbaty, Republic of Khakassia. In
[00:54:03] 1766
[00:54:14] there were no 338
[00:54:16] people, they were engaged in agriculture,
[00:54:20] farming, do you consider yourself Russian or
[00:54:22] German? Of course Russian, for 260 years
[00:54:26] the family tree of Russian Germans grew roots in Siberian
[00:54:30] soil, because all my roots are here,
[00:54:33] my parents. were born here, children
[00:54:37] were born, I have three children, two daughters and
[00:54:40] a son, well, and I think
[00:54:44] they will also stay here, I will pass on all
[00:54:47] my art, everything I know, hunting,
[00:54:50] fishing, a hereditary hunter sacredly honors the laws
[00:54:54] of nature, naturally, and you go hunting with
[00:54:58] a certain goal, that is, if I have a permit for
[00:55:01] a male goat over a year old, then
[00:55:05] I only hunt males,
[00:55:09] we don't touch females, for real hunters
[00:55:11] the bear is not an enemy, but a part of nature, the invasion
[00:55:15] of wild beasts they take seriously, but without panic,
[00:55:18] like forest fires in summer and floods in spring, my eldest
[00:55:22] daughter Evelina, has gone with
[00:55:24] me hunting for bears twice, really? And what were
[00:55:28] her impressions? Tremendous, twice, well,
[00:55:31] I really went, well, of course, the bears... we didn't
[00:55:35] get them, as a good
[00:55:38] father, I took her a little further away from the bears, well,
[00:55:42] and we sat in the car, we just needed the effect itself,
[00:55:46] that while the child wants and strives, you need to do everything they want,
[00:55:49] so that they love nature and their
[00:55:53] parents, in these parts a word is dearer than gold,
[00:55:56] stronger than metal, so Siberians speak little, but from
[00:56:00] the heart, if they invite tourists, it's not out of formal
[00:56:03] politeness, of course, we're waiting, because
[00:56:06] not many people know about our Khakassia, and the nature here
[00:56:10] is excellent, clean rivers, many
[00:56:13] lakes, alpine meadows,
[00:56:17] all berries, herbs, all animals, you can
[00:56:21] see everything, we
[00:56:24] have something to see, you don't need to, well, as for me, I haven't been to many places here,
[00:56:27] why go to Turkey or not
[00:56:31] Turkey, that is, I feel comfortable here, how to say,
[00:56:35] where I was born, I like it there. Sergey Medvedev
[00:56:38] lives in Obaza, he went to the taiga at the tourist base, 160
[00:56:41] km from the city, to close his maral
[00:56:45] license, and most importantly - to rest his soul. Well, I periodically come
[00:56:48] here just, well, with my family, to relax, well,
[00:56:52] it's a great place, we've known the guys for a long time,
[00:56:56] now, well, the hunting season for maral and bear
[00:56:59] has opened, so, well, it's hunting season in Siberia. They say
[00:57:03] about such people, born with a gun. They have been hunting for as long as they can remember,
[00:57:07] it's not a livelihood and not a hobby, but part
[00:57:09] of their character, Siberian character is
[00:57:11] endurance, perseverance,
[00:57:14] like resilience to... to
[00:57:17] all, so to speak, life moments.
[00:57:21] Sergey is a hereditary Cossack, one of those who
[00:57:24] conquered Siberia. The bear invasion for him is not an emergency,
[00:57:28] but another challenge of the endless taiga, which
[00:57:31] Siberians will certainly cope with. And happiness,
[00:57:34] it's not far off, it's here, in these mountains.
[00:57:38] Happiness, it's when everything is peaceful in your soul,
[00:57:41] happiness, happiness.
[00:57:45] Are you happy now? At this moment yes.