The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, something no one in Moscow expected, Vladimir Pastukhov says, may turn out to be “Putin’s Chornobyl,” an event which changes the attitude of the population to its rulers completely not because of deaths but because his regime has lied in ways that have failed to protect it.
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Medics walk in front of a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka outside Moscow on June 17, 2021.
