Animal necrospeak: Bears are being "regulated" across Russia

"The Ministry of Natural Resources plans to change the rules for regulating bear populations," — writes Irk.ru. "Another 11 bears have been regulated in Buryatia." — reports "ArigUs". "Bear populations will be regulated in two districts of Transbaikalia," — reports Chita.ru.

"To regulate" is "to kill," a social anthropologist noted, drawing attention to the new vocabulary of state and pro-government media. Alexandra Arkhipova.

"I understand that this was used in bureaucratic documents before. But now it's not officials using this word in internal documents, but the media," Arkhipova wrote.

"Don't look around, don't make any loud noises! One step left, one step right—adjustment," "It feels like I was lied to. I was convinced until the very end that the animals had been taken to the forest," "Why torture the language like that? They could have written it simply and clearly: reset, double-juiced," The anthropologist's subscribers support her.

August and September are "bear season" in Siberia this year - hungry predators come out to people in the mountains, forests and nature reserves. Only in Buryatia Over the past 24 hours, 24 cases of bears approaching people have been recorded. Nine animals have been controlled and killed. In eleven districts Tuva introduced a state of high alert. Krasnoyarsk residents A hundred times this week there were reports of bears coming out.

"This year's summer in Siberia has been unusually hot, so there are few berries and mushrooms in the forests. Bears are hungry and forced to seek food in areas where people live," a hunter from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug explained in a conversation with NeMoskva. "The famine is compounded by annual forest fires, which force the animals out of their natural habitat. Furthermore, the bear population is actually growing—hunting licenses are expensive, and not everyone can afford one."