Week-ending 20 March 2020
Petition to President and Government: ‘We, citizens of Russia, call on the president and government to immediately take the following measures: […] To postpone the vioting on amendments to the Constitution until the epidemiological threat has disappeared.’
Source:
Prominent Russians Urge Government to Take Swift Action Against Coronavirus
Russian public figures, doctors and citizens have launched a petition urging the government to take urgent action against the coronavirus as the country’s number of confirmed cases continues to climb. The petition’s authors include acclaimed novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, economist Sergei Guriev, publisher Irina Prokhorova, musician Alexei Kortnev and journalists Leonid Parfyonov, Katerina Gordeeva and Ilya Azar. The Moscow Times, 20 March 2020
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