It will be a different bike. "Report on the betrayal of the Great Lake, on whose shores deforestation has begun. This material (information) is produced and distributed by the foreign agent "KEDR. Media" or concerns the activity of the foreign agent "KEDR. Media". 18+ At the end of 2025, the Russian parliament Vladimir Putin allowed deforestation on the banks of Lake Baikal. The decision was explained with concern to the local residents - for them, according to them, it is necessary to build roads, services and additional infrastructure. Environmentalists, scientists and activists have been fighting the bill for more than two years, fearing that it is motivated by commercial rather than social interests. Moreover, the authorities of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region plan to build new resorts and greatly increase the flow of tourists: from 2 million to 5 million people this year. Kedr reporters went to Baikal to find out who benefits from the change in legislation and what is happening to the forests on the shore of the lake. Support Kedr.