The Investigative Committee has completed the reopened investigation into the death of 28-year-old Nikolai Shaykhutdinov at IK-15 in Angarsk, Irkutsk Oblast, and has charged the former colony chief Sergei Shvedkov and three other employees with abuse of office instead of negligence. They face up to 10 years in prison, and the case materials are now being prepared for review by the defendants and the victim’s family.

#Angarsk #IK15 #Irkutskregion #RegionsoftheRussianFederation #Siberia #Prisons #fsin

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Rospotrebnadzor said that reports of a second case of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Irkutsk are not true. The agency said that all preventive measures in the region have been fully completed and there are no risks to the public.

#WHO #DarjaShipilova #Irkutsk #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor

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In Irkutsk Oblast, all preventive measures were officially completed after the death of an employee of the anti-plague institute, Daria Shipilova. Governor Igor Kobzev said that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov is calm, and the quarantine has been lifted.

#disease #WHO #DonaldTrump #Irkutskregion #quarantine #Rospotrebnadzor #plague #Shelekhov

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On October 7 in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization had requested additional information from Russia on the situation in the Irkutsk region after the death of an employee of the anti-plague institute. According to WHO, about 200 contacts were placed in quarantine, and a full risk assessment is not yet possible.

#disease #WHO #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor #plague #Shelekhov

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The U.S. Embassy in Russia advised American citizens not to travel to the country and to leave it immediately if they are already there. The warning is linked to reports of the spread of pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast and a quarantine after a person's death.

#disease #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor #Russia #USA #plague #Shelekhov

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U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will soon call Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible plague outbreak in Russia. When asked by journalists whether he had spoken with Putin about this before, Trump replied that the conversation would take place soon.

#disease #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #Irkutskregion #plague #Shelekhov

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Indonesia has tightened sanitary checks at entry points to the country after reports from Russia of the death of an employee of the Irkutsk Scientific Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East and the hospitalization of nearly 200 people who had contact with her. According to Indonesian Health Ministry official Aji Muhawarman, inspections are being carried out at airports and seaports, including in Bali.

#Bali #WorldHealthOrganization #Indonesia #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor #plague

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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is monitoring reports of an alleged plague case and related quarantine measures in Russia, a White House spokesperson told Axios. In Irkutsk Oblast, officials earlier reported the death of an employee of an anti-plague institute, after which the Shelekhov hospital was placed under quarantine and 189 people who had been in contact with her were hospitalized.

#disease #WHO #DonaldTrump #Irkutskregion #Incidents #Rospotrebnadzor #USA #plague

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In Irkutsk Oblast, three city clinical hospitals in Irkutsk, the Ivano-Matreninsky Children's Hospital, the city maternity hospital, and the Central District Hospital of Shelekhov were closed for quarantine. A mask mandate was introduced at the aluminum plant in Shelekhov, and Rospotrebnadzor said it was a case of «pneumonia of unspecified etiology».

#disease #Irkutsk #Irkutskregion #Incidents #plague #Shelekhov

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The administration of the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant (IrkAZ) ordered medical masks to be worn at the enterprise in Shelekhov after the death there of 28-year-old lab assistant of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute Darya Shipilova. This was reported by the plant’s general director Artem Fominykh in his Telegram channel.

#disease #Irkutskregion #Incidents #RegionsoftheRussianFederation #plague #Shelekhov

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The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale against Igor Shemetov, an employee of the housing and utilities service of a military town in the Irkutsk region. According to the agency, he placed cryptocurrency mining equipment at work, causing damage to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

#Irkutskregion #Cryptocurrency #Mining #MinistryofDefenseoftheRussianFederation #Russia #Siberia #InvestigativeCommitteeoftheRussianFederation

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The wife of 54-year-old entrepreneur Vladimir Shch. from Ust-Kut took him home after nearly a day spent in the police station and military enlistment office, where, according to the family’s complaint to the prosecutor’s office, the man was being pressured to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Vladimir is now with his family, and his relatives fear he may be tracked down and are trying not to let him go out alone.

#WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Irkutskregion #MinistryofDefenseoftheRussianFederation #mobilization #police

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On the afternoon of September 21 in the village of Granovshchina in the Irkutsk region, a 59-year-old Toyota driver hit a 10-year-old boy at full speed. The child was hospitalized with serious injuries, and the regional Interior Ministry did not specify whether the driver had been detained.

#toyota #waragainstUkraine #Granovshchina #Irkutskregion #InteriorMinistry #prosecutorsoffice

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Since the end of August, bear encounters with people have been recorded almost daily in 41 regions of Russia. By mid-September, the media had counted at least 12 dead and more than 530 shot animals, while the regions are introducing states of heightened alert and closing tourist routes.

#greenpeace #Buryatia #Irkutskregion #Krasnoyarskregion #Bears #MinistryofNaturalResourcesofRussia

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