As COVID-19 cases spike in Russia, the Kremlin struggles to respond
Quite uncharacteristically, the Russian state TV host did not bury the bad news as he led off the show.
“We’re now following the same model as Italy,” Yevgeny Popov said in a stunning about-face from just two weeks ago, when the host of the popular Russian talk show 60 Minutes said the government was getting the coronavirus outbreak under control.
Now, Russia’s most widely watched Kremlin-funded news programs are telling people they should prepare for thousands of deaths.
Along with that shift in messaging has also come a change in behaviour from President Vladimir Putin.
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So much unknown about pandemic because govt keeps lid on it
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