Russia’s pandemic record is contradictory. It has one of Europe’s highest death rates, but its economy has kept ticking over. Moscow gave the world its first Covid-19 vaccine, but few of the city’s residents are keen on taking it.
News emerging from the country paints a mixed picture. Some of it is good, some of it is harrowing and, taken together, it all raises troubling questions about the attitudes of Russians and their overall relationship with the state.
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