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Russia’s coronavirus tally rises above 10,000 with Moscow at its epicentre as Putin brings in strict punishments for breaking lockdown Nation saw a record one-day rise in cases and a death toll increase from 13 to 76 It is now illegal to break lockdown with punishment of up to seven years in prison Spreading misinformation … Read more
Russia is preparing to open a brand new emergency coronavirus hospital built from scratch in less than one month. These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock. It is the largest of 18 new-build hospitals now being … Read more
Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia’s third president 20 years ago. Yet today Putin has become the Godfather of a vast Mafia state – and to do that he has combined the dirty skills of a former … Read more