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00:01:013 o'clock in Moscow, the broadcast of the Russia-24 TV channel continues.
00:01:19Today in Russia is the final third day of elections, the last
00:01:22opportunity to vote for all who have not yet done so. By this
00:01:26hour, polling stations are open in some regions of Siberia in the Far East.
00:01:30There, as in the country as a whole, the process is quite lively. For example, in
00:01:33Primorsky Krai, the figure is even higher than the national
00:01:37average, almost 49%. In addition
00:01:40to deputies of the State Duma, the region is electing the composition of the local
00:01:43legislative assembly. Ksenia Kolchina is directly reporting from
00:01:47Vladivostok. Ksenia, greetings! If we compare
00:01:50with previous days, and you have been working for the third day at the polling stations,
00:01:54how active are the
00:01:56voters today?
00:02:00Denis, hello, yes, indeed, the third and final day
00:02:03of voting has begun in the Far
00:02:06East. We are in Vladivostok, here the polling stations
00:02:10have been open for 2 hours, and as you know, despite the
00:02:13early hour on Sunday, voters
00:02:17are coming. Of course, queues for ballot boxes are not forming yet, but
00:02:21one after another, voters are coming, receiving
00:02:23ballots, and fulfilling their civic
00:02:26duty. Regarding turnout, indeed, turnout at the
00:02:30end of the second day in Primorye turned out to be quite high, it was
00:02:3348.82%, these are indeed very good
00:02:37indicators. There is data for individual cities, so
00:02:41the leader in Primorsky Krai was the city Bolshoy Kamen, this city is about two
00:02:44hours drive from Vladivostok, there the turnout was
00:02:4756.62%.
00:02:50In second place is the city Spassk Dalny, there the turnout is
00:02:5255.52%,
00:02:54that is, voters in Primorsky Krai are really active,
00:02:58and we think that the third day will also be quite
00:03:02active on the part of citizens. Today, of course,
00:03:06is the most difficult, responsible day for members of precinct
00:03:09election commissions, today at 8:00 PM they will not only
00:03:12close the polling stations, but will begin the procedure of extinguishing and counting
00:03:15ballots, they will do this for as long as it takes, many polling stations will
00:03:19work all night to then transfer data to territorial election
00:03:23commissions, and they in turn will send the figures to the regional
00:03:27election commission. Tomorrow morning we will find out
00:03:30the first data on the results of the three days
00:03:33of voting. I remind you, in Primorye there are 1,253
00:03:37polling stations, voters are given four ballots, as
00:03:40you absolutely correctly, Denis, noted, in our region they are electing the composition of the State
00:03:44Duma of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai.
00:03:47Colleagues.
00:03:50Yes, Ksenia, thank you, I see that even the weather is favorable, so
00:03:54everything is in place for people to come today and
00:03:57make their choice. My colleague Ksenia
00:04:00Kolchina reported
00:04:01on the elections in Primorye.
00:04:05The nationwide turnout for the State Duma elections after 2 days
00:04:08was over 44%. This is data
00:04:11from the Central Election Commission. In general, the process is going normally, without serious
00:04:15violations. The Central Election Commission records all incoming signals, and responds
00:04:19immediately. Voting coverage by Maria
00:04:21Valieva. Attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not
00:04:25stop. In the Luhansk People's Republic, 14
00:04:28polling stations had to be switched to backup
00:04:31power supply. SMS alerts about drone danger
00:04:35arrive regularly, but despite this, people
00:04:38come to the polling stations to express their
00:04:42civic position, what is there to fear,
00:04:45nothing to fear, we are used to everything
00:04:48already, we will cope with everything, if
00:04:51we consider our warriors, then of course we are very
00:04:55grateful to them, and we are not afraid, they will all win. The night was
00:04:59difficult for the energy services in
00:05:02the DPR, there were also power outages, but everything
00:05:06was quickly resolved, and it did not affect the voting process or the work
00:05:09of polling stations in any way.
00:05:12I would like to note the prompt work of our electricians, because
00:05:16there was a power outage at night, but by 8:00 AM
00:05:19all polling stations were open. This is not
00:05:23our first election campaign held in the Donetsk People's Republic and it has this
00:05:27negative vibe from Ukrainian villains, well,
00:05:30what else can you call them. The work of members of precinct election commissions
00:05:34in frontline regions is not easy, in Bryansk region
00:05:37stationary polling stations close at 3:00 PM for the
00:05:41safety of residents.
00:06:42reserved premises are provided for discovery,
00:06:45one of them had to be moved due to an attack
00:06:49by Ukrainian drones. Maria Valieva and Ivan Kuznetsov, Vesti.
00:07:07Russian units are pushing through the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses in the Dobropol direction
00:07:11in the DPR, street. Battles are already underway in the central part of Dobropol,
00:07:15neighboring Gulyovo and Maryevka have come under control, the liberation
00:07:18of the latter expanded the control zone of the Center group on the right
00:07:21flank and allowed to intensify fire on the road leading to
00:07:25the enemy's rear. In the Ukrainian defense of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration,
00:07:29another serious breach has formed.
00:07:33In total, since the beginning of September, Russian units have liberated 27
00:07:36settlements. The liquidation of the
00:07:39Reznyakovsky cauldron in Kharkiv region continues. Battles are underway for Orekhov
00:07:43in Zaporozhye, in Krasny Liman and Svyatogorsk - this is the DPR,
00:07:47the clearing of residential areas from militants. Since the beginning of the year,
00:07:50over 500 square kilometers
00:07:53of territory have been liberated.
00:07:57Iran handed over to the USA through mediators in Qatar the conditions for
00:08:00ending the war and is now awaiting Donald Trump's answer. This was
00:08:04stated by the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran to Al Jazeera.
00:08:08Tehran demands a cessation of hostilities
00:08:11on all fronts, unfreezing of assets, lifting of
00:08:15the naval blockade. Separately, a truce is proposed between
00:08:18Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. At the same time, the decision
00:08:21to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
00:08:24has not yet been made by the authorities of the Islamic Republic,
00:08:27however, as stated in Tehran, the actions of the USA and Israel
00:08:31allow Iran to withdraw from
00:08:33the agreement.
00:08:37In Germany, state elections are starting in the coming hours
00:08:40in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin. They could be
00:08:43a turning point for the ruling coalition and its
00:08:47leader Friedrich Merz personally. The CDU risks showing its worst
00:08:50result in history, and Merz could lose his chancellor's
00:08:54seat altogether. But the far-right Alternative for
00:08:57Germany is strengthening its positions. Bloomberg predicts
00:09:00an open revolt of his party members
00:09:04for Merz in case of a painful defeat. If you believe the latest polls, in
00:09:07Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the CDU can get a maximum of
00:09:106%. In the capital.
00:09:21and the company's chances of overcoming the five percent barrier are slightly better. Gaza became the arena of mass riots due to the authorities'
00:09:25migration policy. The action of the far-right against the reception
00:09:28of migrants ended in clashes with the police. Initially, the rally
00:09:31was peaceful, started with a concert, and then the protesters
00:09:35tried to break through the police cordon. Bottles, sticks
00:09:38and pyrotechnics were thrown at the law enforcement officers. In response.
00:09:42water cannons and tear gas. The rally participants demanded stricter
00:09:46requirements for asylum seekers in the country and immigrants. This
00:09:50week, the leader of the Dutch far-right party even
00:09:53stated, and I quote: "It's time for a big
00:09:56clean-up in the Netherlands." Among other things, he called for the repatriation of
00:10:00Syrian and Ukrainian
00:10:04citizens currently there.
00:10:07The eighty-first General Assembly of the UN is taking place in New York,
00:10:11the current Secretary-General will leave his post, ahead are
00:10:14elections for a new head of the organization and serious work to
00:10:18restore the UN's former authority,
00:10:21squandered over the past decades, and those who are
00:10:24responsible for this... our own correspondent, Valentin
00:10:27Bogdanov spoke with the Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN,
00:10:31Vasily Nebenzia.
00:10:34This is America, a program about a country that is difficult
00:10:37to understand.
00:10:38Hello.
00:10:45The UN headquarters is not only the Security Council chamber
00:10:49and lively corridors, but also a whole
00:10:52open-air sculpture museum. By
00:10:55the monuments gifted to the world organization by
00:10:58winners and losers, one can
00:11:01study modern history, or one can
00:11:05ponder the future next to them.
00:11:08We went on an unusual excursion together with
00:11:11Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzia.
00:11:15Tents for the press, fences to separate journalists from
00:11:18delegation members, the headquarters, as
00:11:21usual, transforms for the worse for a high-level event.
00:11:25But no architectural spam can overshadow
00:11:29the main masterpieces. "Let us beat our swords into
00:11:32plowshares" is the pinnacle of socialist realism, in which
00:11:35appealing to the peaceful purpose of the UN Charter, Soviet
00:11:38front-line soldier Yevgeny Vuchetich
00:11:40encoded a biblical quote. For you,
00:11:44perhaps, Vuchetich is still the dearest, as
00:11:47for a Volgograd resident, or for a Stalingrad resident? As for a Volgograd resident,
00:11:51I was born already, when the city was renamed.
00:11:55My sister is from Stalingrad, and I am from Volgograd. Vuchetich, as
00:11:59you rightly said, is a child of the Soviet Union,
00:12:02he is from Ukraine, he has interesting
00:12:06origins, but a Russian is not someone who is Russian by blood, but a Russian
00:12:10is someone who feels that way. The blacksmith who
00:12:13forges a plow, part of a series of works by the great sculptor
00:12:17related to the motif of the sword. This series also includes
00:12:20the Liberator Soldier in Berlin's Treptow Park, and the Motherland Calls
00:12:24in Kiev. And the monumental Motherland Calls
00:12:27on Mamaev Kurgan, in the small
00:12:30homeland of our permanent representative, who from New York watched
00:12:33the trips of Trump's emissaries. How do you
00:12:37evaluate, well, if not a new
00:12:40beginning, then at least an attempt to launch
00:12:43a negotiation process: where are we now, where are the American
00:12:47efforts now, why do they need this? And
00:12:50what are, frankly, the chances?
00:12:53I will not assess the chances.
00:12:55Negotiation efforts are being made, indeed our
00:12:59American partners sincerely want to
00:13:02help with this, unlike the Europeans. Here at the
00:13:05UN, do you feel any, well, even a minimal change, if not
00:13:09in their rhetoric, then at least in their behavior? I
00:13:13think it would be fair to say that I
00:13:16feel tired of this question, including from the
00:13:19sponsors of Kyiv, they are forced to ritually support
00:13:22this topic on... Good triumphs over evil, a work by
00:13:55Zurab Tsereteli, another Russian sculpture at the UN.
00:13:58The serpent is made of elements of medium-range missiles,
00:14:01Soviet SS-20s, American
00:14:05Pershings, symbolizing the INF
00:14:07Treaty. The treaty the US withdrew from in
00:14:112019. Time and again, agreements with
00:14:15Americans collapse, the last thing that
00:14:18collapsed was the spirit of Anchorage, or not, or is it still alive,
00:14:22judging by recent
00:14:26events, by the visit of American commissioners to Moscow,
00:14:30probably, they
00:14:32were driven by this spirit and did arrive
00:14:35there, but as for this
00:14:38sculpture, indeed a gift
00:14:41of modern Russia, the author is the famous
00:14:44Tsereteli, it symbolizes agreements in the field of arms
00:14:48control and disarmament, unfortunately,
00:14:51this system has been almost completely destroyed
00:14:53by the American side. Well, you said that they are actively
00:14:57rearming, the news of the past day was a real sensation,
00:15:00where they announced that they have already put weapons into space,
00:15:04we have a treaty that
00:15:06limits weapons in space, not the first deployment of weapons in
00:15:10space, yes, there is, so they also declared the moon American
00:15:14territory, fragments of rockets, fragments
00:15:16of treaties, well, how can you trust them at all, how can you negotiate with them, where
00:15:20are the limits? Well, as their president said, trust, but verify, now, unfortunately, the system...
00:15:24the system of verification
00:15:27is not there, as such, it is essentially
00:15:30absent, and there is almost nothing left to verify. In general,
00:15:34the romantic era ended, it began here.
00:17:37like this bronze figure. Vasily Alekseevich, I could not pass by
00:17:41this sculpture, because I saw, probably, this is the only place in
00:17:45New York, and rarely anywhere else in the world, where there is still
00:17:49a combination of GDR. The sculpture is called
00:17:52rising or awakening, very topical.
00:17:56I don't know if this can be applied,
00:17:59it's like a testament
00:18:01to the victory of Alternative for Germany, in
00:18:04Saxony-Anhalt, but the fact that...
00:20:10about the right of peoples to self-determination, although there was no self-determination, referendum,
00:20:13or plebiscite there, there was a decision of parliament, then
00:20:16confirmed by the UN International Court of Justice. In the case of
00:20:19Crimea, they seized upon the principle of territorial integrity
00:20:23of the state. However, they often did not look into the UN Charter at all,
00:20:26guided by the right of the strong. The pistol tied in a knot
00:20:30by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd in 1980
00:20:34was created in memory of his murdered friend, John Lennon. The conflict
00:20:51in the Middle East, a war that was supposed to
00:20:53end in a very short time from the perspective
00:20:57of the Trump administration, is turning into
00:21:00another endless US war in the Middle East?
00:21:04It seems that the American administration does not
00:21:07know how to get out of this
00:21:11conflict without losing face, because the goals were stated, they were not
00:21:15achieved, Iran did not
00:21:17become, did not become.
00:21:20another easy walk for them, as it was in other places,
00:21:23showed its ability to resist, this huge
00:21:26nation, a whole civilization, the Gulf states
00:21:30complain about Iranian
00:21:33missiles falling on them, Iranian
00:21:36missiles. In response to attacks, Americans strike at bases located
00:21:39in these countries, and I want to ask a question
00:21:43about this, but what, son, did your Yankees help
00:21:46you, they were supposed to ensure security, I tell you:
00:22:50but here, at least, no one
00:22:54approaches me with this question. Returning to the pistol, I wanted to say that, we
00:22:57all want, of course, peace, but unfortunately,
00:23:01the history of humanity is the history of this,
00:23:04but we must do everything in our power to resolve the
00:23:07conflicts that are blazing across the world. The planet
00:23:11is cracking on the outside, but inside a more
00:23:14complex, still not fully understood order is being born, so
00:23:17explained. the meaning of his work, the Italian
00:23:21sculptor, who called it a sphere within a sphere, it stands
00:23:24at the very entrance to the UN, the unipolar
00:23:27world is disappearing, the world of colonial post-colonial
00:23:31domination, new centers of power are emerging, this
00:23:33is known, we hope that from this, from
00:23:36this chaos a new cosmos will be born, new, new
00:23:40relations between states, which will not be those we see
00:23:44now, if you ask me what I want to see the world
00:23:47in the future? I want to see the world as
00:23:50a universe, existing, its
00:23:53community of people, and peace as what in Slavic languages
00:23:57is translated by the word peace, that is, the absence of war, but you are not a supporter
00:24:00of the popular concept, for example, among the current US administration, of
00:24:04peace through strength, through one strength cannot be achieved, through one strength
00:24:08peace cannot be achieved, this is what all human
00:24:11history testifies to, the path by which
00:24:14in a matter of days UN skyscraper will be entered
00:24:17by leaders. Motorcades arrive here,
00:24:21we walk with Vasily Nebenzia to the Japanese peace bell
00:24:24Bonsho. It was cast from coins donated by children
00:24:28from 60 countries. It rings twice a year on the day
00:24:32of the spring equinox and before each session of the
00:24:35General Assembly. As soon as you started talking about the bell, I immediately
00:24:38remembered Hemingway. For whom
00:24:40the bell tolls, we need to find out first.
00:24:44If it tolls for anyone specifically, we will find out. We will find out
00:24:48soon, what do we expect from the session.
00:25:20This is naturally all, as it is said, excuse my unparliamentary
00:25:24language, to the coffers of the American side, who
00:25:27want to rationalize the activities of the UN. The current
00:25:30Secretary-General Guterres, by the way, rang the Japanese bell for the last
00:25:34time this
00:25:35year.
00:25:39The new Secretary-General is expected to take office in January
00:25:42of next year, the difficult and not always
00:25:45clear election process is already in full swing, Nebenzia tells us
00:25:49about the abstract.
00:32:36Artybash village, Altai Republic, the main gate to
00:32:39Lake Teletskoye, the small Baikal of Western Siberia, as it is
00:32:43often called in guidebooks.
00:32:45Here also originates the Biya, one of the large rivers of the region,
00:32:49around, wherever you look, taiga forests.
00:33:03Early in the morning it is quiet and peaceful here, but in the evenings
00:33:07it is unsafe to be outside. With the onset of
00:33:10dusk, locals try not to leave their
00:33:13homes.
00:33:17We had such a case, my
00:33:20wife and I were sitting at home at approximately
00:33:239:30 PM. That evening, Vitaly and his
00:33:27family were already preparing for bed, when unexpectedly, a strange
00:33:30noise was heard in the yard,
00:33:33I heard my fence starting to break,
00:33:37the cracking of boards, you can see them there,
00:33:40there they are, and the heavy breathing of this bear, like
00:33:44that growl. Vitaly decided
00:33:48to act, the plan was short, he wanted to run out
00:33:51and shout, thinking the beast would get scared and leave.
00:33:55I open the door and see that its paw, up to
00:33:58the elbow, is already on the terrace, here
00:34:02remained traces of
00:34:04claws, I was simply overwhelmed and how
00:34:07I shouted at it
00:34:10and closed the door, holding the door
00:34:14very tightly. And I felt how this large
00:34:17body, it ran across the porch and went
00:34:21to another part of the plot, it climbed out through
00:34:24the fence there. The bear did not just climb over the fence,
00:34:28it broke several wooden sections with its paws
00:34:31to get through. Vitaly called emergency
00:34:34services, hunters and gamekeepers
00:34:37arrived, inspected the area, but the predator was no longer
00:34:41nearby. They walk around here all the time and.
00:34:59not 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,
00:35:03because well, you can meet a
00:35:05bear.
00:35:08Vitaly is not a hunter, he has no gun, so to somehow
00:35:11protect himself after that incident he installed from the forest side.
00:35:15they detect the approach of wild
00:35:17animals,
00:35:22the most important thing,
00:35:26this is the device,
00:35:30it's a siren with a motion sensor, so I set it up, if someone
00:35:33comes here, it will be heard,
00:35:37this is basically a sound horn, it's around
00:35:40120-130 decibels, much stronger than a car
00:35:45horn. And pepper, so its
00:35:49range is about 5 meters, it sprays, well, accordingly,
00:35:53it scares off like a pepper spray but for
00:35:55animals.
00:36:02That same night, when the animal broke into his house, a tragedy
00:36:06occurred nearby on the Biya River bank. At 1 AM, he
00:36:09came to the tent, apparently, he probably smelled
00:36:13food too, most likely.
00:36:16This is the very place where, as locals say, the tent stood,
00:36:20further down is a cliff and a river, twenty-five-year-old Snezhanna
00:36:23came to rest in Altai from Novosibirsk region, with
00:36:27her young man, the day before he proposed
00:36:30to her. Tourists were presumably warned that bear encounters in
00:36:34Turachaksky district had become more frequent, but the young people
00:36:37probably underestimated the danger, the girl could not
00:36:40be saved.
00:36:41The village of Artybash, Lake Teletskoye and
00:36:46the surrounding areas are all tourist spots. Nature lovers
00:36:49like to come here. Part of the Altai Biosphere
00:36:52Reserve is also located here. All eco-routes
00:36:56of the reserve are currently
00:36:59closed for visits, the reason is the same,
00:37:02increased activity of brown bears, but within the
00:37:05territory there is a small settlement, Yaylyu, where primarily
00:37:09reserve workers live. Tatyana and
00:37:12Roman are among them, they track the number of animals,
00:37:15observe their movements, and mark their
00:37:18resting places. Now we are walking along
00:37:22one of the infiltration routes, along one.
00:37:25to confuse,
00:38:27here is the camera trap itself, Roman
00:38:29is reviewing what was captured this
00:38:33time, well, the very first shot,
00:38:36recorded a bear
00:38:39passing through, this is the twelfth,
00:38:42eighth, well, this one is quite
00:38:45large,
00:38:49for now the main food of the bears here in the reserve
00:38:52are gardens, old apple and pear trees, planted back in the
00:38:55fifties...
00:39:27Yuri Nikolaevich, a biologist-hunter, has been observing brown
00:39:30bears for 35 years, he says this year is not
00:39:34anomalous, but very difficult. due to a fodder shortage in the
00:39:37taiga. This year, there are no pine nuts,
00:39:40in Siberia, brown bears mainly
00:39:43fatten up, accumulate fat for the
00:39:47winter, and this is on pine nuts,
00:39:50which are their main food. If there are
00:39:53none, they look for alternatives, but...
00:39:57in recent decades, they have started looking for alternatives not in
00:40:01nature, but with
00:40:03humans.
00:40:062026 is not the first difficult year in terms of food for
00:40:10bears. Yuri Nikolaevich recalls similar situations,
00:40:13the problem is that if a bear once tasted something delicious somewhere, he
00:40:17remembers the way to that
00:40:19place for a long time.
00:40:22He lives up to 40 years, he can completely, he has a good memory, that
00:40:26is. In 2008, he came here, he
00:40:29ate, then there was 2014,
00:40:332018, then the years were more
00:40:36mild, but there were pine nuts, but very few, and
00:40:40he was not sated, and he still came here, to the
00:40:44village, he came,
00:40:47step back, step back,
00:40:49a nightmare, if there is food in the taiga, the bear
00:40:53prefers to avoid people, says Kalinkin, and the fact that in hungry years
00:40:56the animal goes to feed in settlements, is often the fault of humans themselves. Many
00:41:00people go into the
00:41:04taiga to collect pine nuts, they
00:41:07leave behind a lot
00:41:09of food scraps, there
00:41:12are uncleaned camps, all this habituates
00:41:16the bear to human food, that
00:41:19is, at tourist bases they even feed them, sometimes at
00:41:22some specially, so that they can take selfies or something
00:41:25similar, this is certainly not...
00:41:53A reserve is a specially protected area, here
00:41:56hunting and shooting of animals, including bears, are prohibited,
00:42:00so all that employees and residents of the village of Yailiu can do to protect themselves
00:42:03is to control the approaches of predators to houses,
00:42:06so that they can hide in time. In addition to camera traps,
00:42:10thermal imagers are actively
00:42:12used for observations.
00:42:15Well, they rest under the canopy and cedar trees, under fir trees,
00:42:18now it's actually very difficult to see them with a thermal imager, well, one
00:42:22bear was found after all by us, it's
00:42:25a bear cub, well, it's sitting in a tree, as
00:42:29bear cubs are supposed to, but if an encounter with a bear still
00:42:32happened, then improvised special means are used,
00:42:36as practice has shown, the most effective are...
00:42:44It's certainly at a short distance, but the bear will definitely not
00:42:47approach.
00:42:50A curfew is in effect on the territory of the reserve. With the onset of
00:42:53darkness, residents of the village of Yaili do not go out into the streets. They also
00:42:57carefully remove all garbage, food scraps are disposed
00:43:01of in special containers, inaccessible to
00:43:04bears. This is how they look. No one
00:43:07gets in here, first of all, it has to be.
00:44:12Nikolay Maksimychev is an amateur hunter, he's been going to the
00:44:14taiga to hunt animals since childhood, for more than 30 years.
00:44:18To meet a bear, you had to travel very far,
00:44:22deep into the taiga, and my parents, uncles, talked about it,
00:44:26there was a whole story, when there was a bear, they went 30
00:44:30kilometers, and that's where they found it.
00:44:33Now there are many more predators, you don't need to search, they come
00:44:36to the villages themselves. Here, I'm giving you a cookie.
00:44:40Want a cookie? The bear broke down fences and ran from
00:44:44one plot to another, where it ate a pear. Hunters believe that
00:44:47such bear behavior is associated not only with the poor cedar harvest, but
00:44:51also with a strong increase in the population in recent years. Since
00:44:55the moment when our legislation changed, we
00:44:58no longer had collective farm animals, when there were no longer staff
00:45:02hunters who had a plan of tasks, no one
00:45:05practically reacted to the bear and now there is a
00:45:09large overpopulation, hunting for
00:45:12bears is difficult and dangerous, says Nikolay, and the harvested animal, due
00:45:15to its specifics, is not very in demand on
00:45:18the market,
00:45:20the bear is omnivorous, it eats carrion, it likes
00:45:23to kill an animal, bury it, for example, yes,
00:45:27it rotted, when practically every third bear is sick,
00:45:30well, therefore, there is no
00:45:33value for it now for anyone, it is hunted,
00:45:36he is now
00:45:39part of the duty brigade of hunters, together with colleagues they
00:45:42survey the surroundings, in their village Dmitriyevka bears also
00:45:46regularly visit, sometimes in daytime. Lyubov
00:45:50Afanasyeva saw the predator near the kindergarten, she filmed it on video
00:45:53through the window of the shop where she works. A small
00:45:57bear cub ran here, went to
00:46:00the garden, ran there and then ran
00:46:04away again, and periodically comes out, during the day
00:46:07a bear cub comes out, it's not big,
00:46:10but it comes to the village.
00:46:13Predators, but already adults, were seen at the local apiary, the clumsy ones
00:46:17visited for honey. If he doesn't try it,
00:46:21he won't come here, but if he just tried it, then no matter
00:46:25what you do, he will still come, visit, well, up to the point that
00:46:29you won't spend the night, we even turned on the light, and he still
00:46:32came even in the light, he was visible, here in
00:46:36the district for many years the family of Galina Ivanova works, they have
00:46:40their own apiary, honey is regularly brought to
00:46:42the market, yes, bears are everywhere now,
00:46:46you drive home, two can cross the
00:46:49road, a mother constantly walks here, with
00:46:52cubs, but she's a bit old, she doesn't come here,
00:46:56there are a lot of young ones.
00:47:00Dmitriyevka is not a remote village, there are about 800
00:47:03residents here, a school, a kindergarten, a library, a club, people
00:47:06keep livestock, grow vegetables, fruits, work,
00:47:10normal life, the order of which is disturbed this season
00:47:13by bears. If before the bear only walked near the village, it did not
00:47:17enter the village itself, then this year it already,
00:47:20specifically in Dmitriyevka, in private subsidiary farms, it ruined
00:47:24evidence, in the neighboring village of Vudavka it also entered
00:47:28gardens. The authorities took measures, a curfew was introduced,
00:47:32raids were organized, the school schedule was
00:47:35changed. At the municipal
00:47:38district level, by decision of the emergency
00:47:41commission, it was decided that in the evening,
00:47:45from 8:00 p.m.,
00:47:47our children should not be on the street. To understand
00:47:51the scale of the problem, we turned to one of the leading bear specialists in
00:47:55Russia, Mikhail Arsenyevich Krechmar, zoologist,
00:47:59hunting expert, candidate of biological sciences, writer and
00:48:02journalist of the Far East, since 2012, editor-in-chief
00:48:06of the Russian hunting journal, he has been studying Brown
00:48:09bears since 1986. Statistics
00:48:13concerning the number of bears
00:48:15is a very
00:48:17relative thing,
00:48:20personally, I don't believe it at all. But
00:48:23there are some indirect indicators by which
00:48:26one can judge that the number of bears has
00:48:30increased by about three times in our
00:48:33country since the late 1980s. According to official
00:48:37data from the Ministry of Natural Resources, as of 2026, there are almost
00:48:40308 thousand brown bears in Russia. In
00:48:441990, there were about
00:48:46133.
00:48:48The main population is concentrated in Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk.
00:49:22then you, then you can say there are
00:49:2675, or you can say there are 125, in both cases you will
00:49:30not be lying. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, this year
00:49:34the situation is not abnormal, usually 20-30 incidents
00:49:37occur per year, in 2025 there were
00:49:4034 cases, in 2024 -
00:49:4419. Mikhail Krechmar provides his
00:49:47data. We have between 30 and 80
00:49:50people dying from bears,
00:49:52now, of course, it feels like
00:49:56a big trouble has occurred,
00:49:59many bears are numerous and so on, but now
00:50:02we are on the verge of
00:50:06big
00:50:08problems. Irkutsk region - gardening
00:50:11partnership, in summer families live here, come for berries,
00:50:15mushrooms and quietness, but this year they didn't get a full
00:50:19rest, bears came out to people and...
00:51:32Olga believes that bears are attracted to dachas not only by berries in
00:51:35the gardens, but also by the state of common dumps, they are overflowing, and
00:51:39also food waste from the plots themselves, in this garden there
00:51:43were watermelon rinds, there, well, and the rinds
00:51:46there, well, that's generally and he sat and ate them,
00:51:50such a munching sound was heard, probably all over... Bears are seen here
00:51:53on different streets, on Kedrovaya, on Osinovaya, on Vinogradnaya. Many
00:51:56vacationers left back for the city.
00:52:00In the chat, they constantly write that now
00:52:03they are afraid to let their children play
00:52:05outside, that they are afraid
00:52:09to go to the dacha, they are afraid.
00:52:22The situation in Buryatia is serious now, here bears approaching
00:52:25people are recorded daily, the authorities call
00:52:28it a mass phenomenon, almost fifty calls in
00:52:32just one day, and this is not just an appearance. This year,
00:52:35bears attacked people in the republic, and he bites my legs,
00:52:39just like that, he grabs and bites,
00:52:43just like that, he grabs like that,
00:52:46and I only have one
00:52:50thought in my head, how to get rid of him, it's just
00:52:53that, I'm trying to hit him in the eye with my right hand,
00:52:57but my reaction is an ionic reaction, it's like
00:53:00earth and sky, in short, he shakes his head and apparently
00:53:04he's like that.
00:53:06That's the only thing noted, but there's nothing, everything's
00:53:09fine, that's it, and I start
00:53:12shouting, and my voice is loud,
00:53:16a good voice. Sergey Georgievich was admitted to the surgery
00:53:19department in early September, with deep lacerations after a bear
00:53:23attack, but he was lucky to escape, the other two cases,
00:53:27encounters of residents with predators ended fatally, the reasons
00:53:30for such bear behavior are the same as throughout Siberia, yes,
00:53:34absolutely...
00:54:21during the rutting season, he was shot, but for him, a bear is not just a trophy, it's an adversary
00:54:24whom he knows well and explains, the reason is not
00:54:27so much hunger, the bear has forgotten how to fear
00:54:30humans. In the nineties, in the eighties, there were commercial
00:54:34hunters. Staff hunters, they were in the forests, they sat in
00:54:38the forest, and hunted squirrels, there were a lot of
00:54:41squirrel hunters, and a lot of sable hunters, they hunted
00:54:44sable, and the bear encountered
00:54:48humans in the forest. Now, uh,
00:54:51there are few sable hunters, and it turns out that there aren't many
00:54:55people in the forest, and this bear came down, he didn't see
00:54:59people, and people for a bear are, well,
00:55:02like - a biological chain. one
00:55:05food source and advice from an experienced hunter in case
00:55:09an encounter with a bear still happened, do not
00:55:11panic, the most important thing,
00:55:15if possible, slowly, slowly step back,
00:55:18do not make sudden
00:55:20movements, this bear, he will
00:55:24in any case react
00:55:27to a sharp movement, to
00:55:30running, if a person ran, then that's for his
00:55:34prey. He will catch up, the bear will catch up.
00:55:53While bears are coming out to dachas and villages in Siberia, an event
00:55:56almost ended in tragedy in the remote taiga of Khakassia. A predator
00:56:00appeared at the hermitage of Agafia Lykova in the Khakassky
00:56:03Reserve.
00:56:05Gavril Karpovna was doing chores
00:56:14outside her hut, when she suddenly noticed a large animal on
00:56:17the hillside, "He's sitting on the mountain,"
00:56:21they tried to drive
00:56:24the bear away with firecrackers and shots, he was hiding somewhere
00:56:28nearby, he
00:56:30saw us.
00:56:35ran away. Now, near Agafia Lykova's hut,
00:56:38volunteers are on duty around the clock, helping her with
00:56:41household chores and making sure the bear doesn't come too close to the
00:56:44hermit's dwelling.
00:56:48The main thing now, say experts, is that the peak
00:56:51of clashes and unexpected encounters with bears is yet to come. I wouldn't
00:56:54want to be a prophet of bad things,
00:56:58but it is absolutely certain that the peak
00:57:01of conflicts will fall on the
00:57:05last weeks before they go into their dens, and on
00:57:09the first two weeks after
00:57:12the snow cover falls.
00:57:15Well, that's just how it always is. If there are still tracks a week after the snow,
00:57:19it makes sense to be on alert. The
00:57:22Ministry of Natural Resources has already announced a call for proposals from regions on how
00:57:25to change hunting laws, hunters demand the removal of
00:57:29quotas and the extension of license terms for the entire season. We
00:57:32don't have a common understanding of a plan for
00:57:35wildlife management, and we must manage it,
00:57:39moreover, throughout our country.
00:57:42The cold weather is coming soon, then it will become clear: did the bears go
00:57:46into their dens or remained as rogues? Mikhail Krechmar
00:57:49notes that if in a week or two after the first
00:57:52snow one sees bear tracks, one should be on
00:57:55guard, the peak has not yet been passed.