On the show today Deputy Editor David Marley is joined by Moscow Correspondent Oliver Carroll to discuss how Russia coping with the Covid-19 pandemic.


How has Putin responded to the crisis, and how is he viewed by the nation?


Oliver also discusses his own experience of contracting the virus and what it was like and recovering in a Moscow hospital.


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