Familiar to these blog pages is the Siberian hermit Agafya Lykova, now 73, a life-long hermit and last of her familiar of Old Believers, who fled to Siberia in 1936. Several media sources now report that the regional Russian governor has banned helicopter flights of food, supplies, and potential evacuation for medical treatment for Agafya in an effort to force her to return to civilization.
HTML: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russias-bid-force-hermit-living-11536159; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5092301/Remarkable-hermit-forced-live-civilisation.html; http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/governor-seeks-to-force-worlds-most-famous-hermit-to-abandon-taiga-home-100-km-from-civilisation/