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Russia's COVID-19 response slowed by population reluctant to take domestic vaccine

  • Written by Arik Burakovsky, Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
imageA man walks past a makeshift memorial for medical workers who died from COVID-19 in Saint Petersburg on May 11, 2020. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images

As Russia struggles with its third wave of COVID-19, the authorities have adopted new measures to contain the coronavirus. But pervasive vaccine hesitancy has put a massive strain on the...

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