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Oct 15, 2026
Jonathan FinkHOST
It is deleted roughly two hours later.
Jonathan FinkHOST
The national channel Ren TV deletes its posts about the case.
Jonathan FinkHOST
The Associated Press reports that other state-sponsored outlets withdrew their reports too, while federal state television simply steered clear of the subject altogether.
Jonathan FinkHOST
Saturday, 3rd of October, the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant in Shelokhov orders its staff into masks.
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Jonathan FinkHOST
Chinese social media lit up with references to Wuhan.
Jonathan FinkHOST
Weibo users demanded strict screening of anyone arriving from Russia so as not to repeat the pandemic experience.
Jonathan FinkHOST
A Russian political telegram channel, Nizhegorod, I think that's how it's pronounced, compared Shilohov to Wuhan.
Jonathan FinkHOST
And there is a detail here that should make everyone sit up straight, bolt upright.
Tom BevanHOST
At the same time, some Russian news organizations reporting about the suspected outbreak has been disappearing.
Tom BevanHOST
Independent Russian outlet The Insider reporting federal network Ren TV deleted all five of its posts about plague in the region, while Kommersant removed both a Telegram post and an online article referring to US concerns about a possible outbreak.
Tom BevanHOST
CNN, meanwhile, reporting on new disease control measures at a maternity hospital in the region.
Tom BevanHOST
A 29-year-old woman telling the outlet she was forced to switch hospitals at 40 weeks pregnant after new quarantine restrictions prevented her husband from being with her during labor.
Tommy VietorHOST
The gover of a, governor of a neighboring region put out a statement referring to, uh, a, quote, "Woman who died of plague [laughs] in the Irkutsk region." So, uh, a lot of those statements get amended or taken down, but, you know, notable.
Tommy VietorHOST
Um, Ren TV, a Russian media network, reported that the lab worker had researched plague.
Tommy VietorHOST
A local news outlet has reported on the closures of this clinic and the hospital, and that a young lab assistant broke a test vial and then died, right? So there's a lot of smoke here.
Tommy VietorHOST
Um, Trump and Rubio, uh, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, were asked about these reports.
GerdesHOST
Then, October 2nd, reporting put ident-, uh, put identified contacts at 197, with 189 hospitalized for observation.
GerdesHOST
Then, [laughs] 2nd October, REN TV removed five plague-related telegram posts, including reporting about hospitalized contacts.
GerdesHOST
And then on October 3rd, you see some more of that.
GerdesHOST
Be- Bakhlask authorities, uh, urged residents to limit travel to Shelekhov, uh, citing unof- unofficial information about human plague case, then deleted the warning less than two hours later.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
That statement on Telegram was later deleted.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
So were at least three posts by REN-TV, a federal news network, including one that named the deceased lab worker, and reported that she had researched the plague.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
Mr. Modin, the Shelikoff mayor, said on Monday that the consumer watchdog had the situation under strict control, adding a set of anti-epidemic measures is being carried out.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
theories and speculation.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
That statement on Telegram was later deleted.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
So were at least three posts by REN-TV, a federal news network, including one that named the deceased lab worker, and reported that she had researched the plague.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
Mr. Modin, the Shelikoff mayor, said on Monday that the consumer watchdog had the situation under strict control, adding a set of anti-epidemic measures is being carried out.
ClaudiaNARRATOR
theories and speculation.
Ben ShapiroHOST
This doesn't sound great.
Ben ShapiroHOST
The woman was identified as one Daria sh- a, they didn't give her last name, a 27 or 28-year-old employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute by the exiled news outlet, Ludy Baikal, and a pro-Kremlin broadcaster, REN TV.
Ben ShapiroHOST
She reportedly told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting samples for testing.
Ben ShapiroHOST
She was hospitalized Tuesday with symptoms of severe pneumonia in Shelokhov, a town near the regional capital of Irkutsk, and she was put on a ventilator, and then she died on Thursday.
Zev ShalevHOST
Two people potentially now, though no one's confirming it, but that's the expectation is they're two people.
Zev ShalevHOST
Plus, all the original reporting that came out of an outfit called Ren TV of the, uh, you know, an immediate reaction to what was going on in Irkutsk have, um, have deleted their, their videos.
Zev ShalevHOST
They're no longer available to people, so we can't even find out what was originally recorded or reported.
Dean BlundellHOST
Yeah, that's 'cause they were, Ren TV was like an outcast television, um, organization, media company in, in Russia that would report the truth.
Dean BlundellHOST
So, you know, someone broke into [laughs] Ren TV from the FSB and is like, "Delete or I kill you."
Zev ShalevHOST
Yeah.
Dean BlundellHOST
Yeah.
Chris HandHOST
It went up and then was deleted within two hours.
Chris HandHOST
Ren TV, a major Russian national broadcaster, scrubbed five posts about the case, and Governor Tsinodev, who-- the one who said, uh, the plague word out loud, he quietly softens his tone and he adds a maybe.
Chris HandHOST
Then, uh, Irkutsk Live, their outlet, put the obvious question on the table: Is this an active information management campaign? Their analysis points to a pattern that is troubling, they say.
Chris HandHOST
Posts disappearing, language getting walked back, uh, but let's be real here.
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