The colonial policy of the Russian Federation allows climate change to divide Buryatia into parts

This year, ice is observed on Lake Baikal only in certain areas in the northern part. In the south, ice formation is not expected at all. In the center of the lake, as well as in the bays and gulfs, the ice will be extremely fragile, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports. There are already the first consequences of the warm winter - in the Selenga delta in the Kokuy area, a passenger car fell through the ice. After this incident, the Ministry of Emergency Situations called on the population not to drive on the ice of Lake Baikal - asking to wait for the formation of harder ice, the appearance of which this year is denied by the Ministry of Emergency Situations itself.

There are no bridges across Lake Baikal. Russia has never built them. If ice stops forming on the lake, then not only its ecosystem will suffer, but also the economy of Buryatia. Many winter routes run on the ice of the lake. Part of the lands of Buryatia will be cut off from the main territory of the republic not only in the summer, but all year round.  The connection between central Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, which contains a significant part of the Buryat ethnic territories, will also be lost. 

The cost of one bridge across Lake Baikal is estimated at 305 to 512 billion rubles, or $2.99 billion to $5.03 billion — with Russia spending $300 million daily on the war, this amount is spent in just 10-16 days. The so-called head of the republic, Alexei Tsydenov, said that the republic would "seek" the allocation of funds for the construction of the bridge "in the coming years." The idea of building a bridge across Lake Baikal was first discussed in 1888 by engineers from the Russian Technical Society. In the 1930s, Stalin promised to build a bridge in these parts. The project was constantly postponed due to "high costs" and "complexity." 

Nevertheless, the implementation of the idea of building the Kerch Bridge, which was first voiced in Russia in 2014, was launched almost immediately - in 2016.  By 2018, the first automobile section of the 19-kilometer bridge, worth 225 billion rubles, was opened in a seismically dangerous zone, and without any delays - there was political will for its rapid construction, and money for construction was taken from the budgets of regions and republics throughout the territory of the Russian Federation.
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