We know that rferl.org isn’t the only website you read, and it’s possible that you may have missed some of our most interesting journalism from the past week. To make sure you’re up-to-date, here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL’s team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.
Lines of ambulances waiting outside hospitals and doctors working overtime to deal with an influx of patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus infections. As the pandemic begins to hit Russia hard and the official count of COVID-19 cases rises fast, its health-care system is scrambling to keep up. By Matthew Luxmoore
The parts of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed separatists — ravaged by six years of armed conflict, and challenged with a weakened health care system and a sizable elderly population — may face a COVID-19 outbreak of considerable scale. By Christopher Miller
In Karelia and Nizhny Novgorod, parents are complaining about food packages given to their children in lockdown to replace school lunches. They say they are getting expired food and rotten potatoes. By Ray Furlong and Current Time
Orthodox Christians observed the Easter holiday amid extraordinary coronavirus-related restrictions that forced many parishioners to watch services on TV, online, or wear face masks and practice physical distancing at churches. By RFE/RL
The son of a paramedic in Belarus says his father died after being infected with the coronavirus — and he has a document to prove it. The health minister has cast doubt on the claim, underscoring what critics say is the state’s refusal to tackle the COVID-19 crisis in a country whose president has called it a “psychosis” and falsely claimed that no citizen will die of the disease. By Alyaksandra Dynko and Tony Wesolowsky
Are the coronavirus and collapsing oil prices pushing Moscow and Washington to try to reset their troubled relationship? By Mike Eckel
In 1970, the Soviet Union and its satellites pulled out all the stops to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the country and self-styled savior of the working class worldwide. Just 50 years later, however, the Kremlin finds Lenin’s legacy problematic and seems satisfied to let the April 22 anniversary pass unnoticed. By Sergei Medvedev and Robert Coalson
With local authorities increasingly using a new law on “fake news” to pressure the media over coverage of the coronavirus crisis, regional journalists across Russia are fighting to report the full story of the government’s response and how COVID-19 is affecting their audiences. By Aleksandr Molchanov and Robert Coalson
Three Moscow doctors talk about about their experiences with COVID-19, describing how quickly patients can deteriorate and how testing is not always working. By Current Time and Reuters
Residents of dilapidated, Soviet-era, communal apartments in the Russian city of St. Petersburg are stuck in lockdown without a room for bathing or showering. They usually use bathhouses to wash, but those have been closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Current Time and Neil Bowdler
Radio Free | Radio Free (2020-04-24T08:27:13+00:00) The Week’s Best: Stories You May Have Missed. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/04/24/the-weeks-best-stories-you-may-have-missed-15/
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