If there’s one thing we know about Russia and its mendacious leader, it’s that you can never take anything they say at face value. Recently, Russia tried to pull a fast one at the United Nations. At the General Assembly, Russia sponsored a draft resolution whose ostensible topic was the raging coronavirus pandemic. According to an Associated Press story, the resolution called for U.N. solidarity at this time of worldwide crisis and urged an end to trade wars, protectionist practices and unilateral sanctions without U.N. Security Council approval (please do recall that Russia has veto power on the Security Council).
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The Ukrainian Weekly: Russia’s coronavirus manipulations
Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, tours the new coronavirus information centre in Moscow on March 17, 2020.
