The coronavirus pandemic has prompted an unprecedented rescue operation, with Moscow having to help tens of thousands of people stranded abroad. The rescue took a lot of effort – and Russia’s diplomats did great work.
The country has had previous experience in bringing back people home in bulk – after the devastating tsunami in Thailand, for instance – yet the Covid-19 fallout came at an incomparably larger scale, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalist Anton Krasovsky for RTD’s ‘Epidemic’ series.
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