Baikal has an area of 31.5 thousand square kilometers, and the volume of its waters is about 23 thousand cubic km The average depth is 730 m. The largest depression investigated by divers reaches 1637 m. All the main indicators of this reservoir are unique and inimitable, so the task of people is to realize what true wealth they own.
Baikal needs care and attention to leave our descendants not a dry well instead of Lake Baikal - the only such lake on the planet, not burnt centuries-old forests of Siberia, but the pleasure to enjoy the contemplation of the charming blue of the waters of this amazing lake, to enjoy the impeccable beauty and amazing quality of its water
Under Soviet rule, Baikal and its coastal zones were under state protection. Gangster criminal modern Russian capitalism mercilessly uses, exploits, thereby destroying Lake Baikal and its coastal conservation area to pump out fabulous profits from them. Pipes are now encircle Lake Baikal, which look like tentacles of aliens devastating its depths ... Water is drawn by pipes from a depth of 40 m.
Recently, in the village of Kultuk, the construction of several plants at once (to the existing ten production facilities on Baikal), which will be engaged in the export of water from Lake Baikal, has been hastily completed. The Baikal Sea brand in the Irkutsk Region pumps 300 million liters of water per year from Baikal. Baikal's water is exported to South Korea, Japan, and Asian countries, but primarily, of course, to China. The Chinese plant on Lake Baikal annually pumps out 2.5 billion liters of water from the lake, which is bottled here and goes directly to Chinese stores. The Chinese already consider Baikal their Chinese sea.
The Russian government has allocated quotas to China for the extraction of water from Lake Baikal in 3.5 million tons of water per year. Note that after China was allowed to exploit Baikal’s resources at the beginning of 2005, the water level in the lake began to fall at a catastrophic rate. The maximum levels of Lake Baikal are legally limited by the requirements of the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 26, 2001. The minimum permissible water level in the lake is 456 m. But by the summer of 2005, the water level had dropped below 450 meters, and data on its level ceased to be published, although they were not officially classified ... By indirect indications, the water level in the lake continues to fall. Water disappeared in the wells of coastal villages. According to environmentalists, massive fires in Siberia were also caused by the drainage of peatlands, which, in turn, is associated with the shallowing of Lake Baikal.
The construction of plants for pumping water through pipes to bottling plants provokes violent protests from citizens. In particular, local media report on the protests of citizens against the governor of the Irkutsk region billionaire Levchenko, "turning Baikal and the Baikal region into a raw materials appendage of China." We remind readers that Governor Levchenko * became known in the Russian Federation for having shot a bear sleeping in a den during his winter hunt (which is prohibited by Russian law). If the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, billionaire Alexander Uss, adopted a plan to shoot 1,600 bears during the period from August 1, 2019 to August 1, 2020, then it is unlikely that Governor Levchenko adopted a less lively plan for hunting animals that fled from fires in Siberia's forests that were not burnt yet.
The Russian authorities are turning a blind eye to the uncontrolled criminal business and the tricks of the ruling oligarchy in the field. They do not respond to protests of citizens. It doesn’t respond to the recent scandal with the AquaSib plant, which laid pipes for pumping water from Lake Baikal and selling it to China. It is important that those who were engaged in the smuggling and sale of the Baikal forest to China were and are now engaged in the construction of factories. Some of the "entrepreneurs" have already served a specific term. For the construction of new plants (in particular, a huge factory by the Chinese) for pumping water from Lake Baikal, the local government receives billions of “kickbacks” (information from local media).
For the fires in Siberia and the embezzlement of Baikal’s resources, the government of D. Medvedev is essentially responsible for the essentially anti-Russian policy pursued by him.
Since September 20, pickets and mass demonstrations of the population for the resignation of oligarch Levchenko from the post of governor began in Irkutsk, Angarsk and other cities of the Angara region. There is a massive collection of signatures for resignation. The reason for the action is that the Baikal forest has been cut down as well as continues to be cut down and sold to China. Bottling of Baikal water and its transportation to China also continues. The new international airport in Irkutsk at the stage of construction that has not yet begun has become the private property of the oligarch Trotsenko thanks to the "efforts" of Levchenko.
Earlier, the oligarch Levchenko became a defendant in corruption scandals, working during his gubernatorial term on schemes for laundering budget funds. One of the most high-profile schemes for which he could get a real term was a scam with the transfer of the Irkutsk international airport to oligarch Roman Trotsenko. The transaction was completed in violation of antitrust laws. But instead of punishment, Sergey Levchenko remained in his "bread" place.
Now let the top leaders of the Russian Federation now say that Russia is not ruled by a mafia oligarchy ...
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