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Doctors in Russia are accusing the government of covering up its coronavirus outbreak and denying them protective equipment

Doctors in Russia say the government is covering up coronavirus cases in the country and forcing medical staff to treat infectious patients without protective equipment.

Anastasia Vasilyeva, the head of Russia's Alliance of Doctors trade union, voiced the accusation in a video published on Thursday.



She called on Russian doctors to go public with information about the "true" state of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

"While the whole world is facing an outbreak of a new coronavirus, Russia is facing an outbreak of a community-acquired pneumonia," Vasilyeva said. "And as usual, we're facing the lie of the authorities."

She said Russian authorities were referring to coronavirus cases as ordinary pneumonia, implying that they're distinct from the coronavirus pandemic.

Russian authorities strongly denied her claims. A statement from the Moscow Department of Health accused her of seeking "to discredit Russian medicine and relevant government agencies" and called for authorities to investigate her.

miketheterrible wrote:That organization is a Navalny headed group.

So ignore them.

PhSt wrote:This BITCH from NATO's 5th columnist squad needs to be injected with HIV, Hepatitis and Ebola.

Doctors in Russia are accusing the government of covering up its coronavirus outbreak and denying them protective equipment

Doctors in Russia say the government is covering up coronavirus cases in the country and forcing medical staff to treat infectious patients without protective equipment.

Anastasia Vasilyeva, the head of Russia's Alliance of Doctors trade union, voiced the accusation in a video published on Thursday.



She called on Russian doctors to go public with information about the "true" state of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

"While the whole world is facing an outbreak of a new coronavirus, Russia is facing an outbreak of a community-acquired pneumonia," Vasilyeva said. "And as usual, we're facing the lie of the authorities."

She said Russian authorities were referring to coronavirus cases as ordinary pneumonia, implying that they're distinct from the coronavirus pandemic.

Russian authorities strongly denied her claims. A statement from the Moscow Department of Health accused her of seeking "to discredit Russian medicine and relevant government agencies" and called for authorities to investigate her.

I hope they speed up their investigation for her malicious intent to sow panic and fear across Russia. Funny how NATO is accusing Russia of spreading disinformation in the West but they are perfectly fine and even encouraging disinformation inside Russia.

Also, this organization, Alliance of Doctors trade union, reminds me of the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, another phoney organization that was setup with the help of NATO with the main objective of causing disarray in Russia's armed forces in the guise of fighting for the rights of soldiers Such organizations needs to be crushed without mercy and all its members subjected to forced organ harvesting, at least other people will benefit from their demise.

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:

kvs wrote:

More on the NG maggot spreading personal information about Russian servicemen to terrorists.     During the second Chechen war
he sold ammunition and information to wahabbi jihadis and put Russian servicemen directly into harm's way.   This maggot is a
full blow traitor and needs to be tried for treason and shot.

If this information has been known, how come no one has submitted it to the Russian authorities?

That is not the problem.   For political optics the prosecutors have not opened a case against this clown.   Time
to stop sucking off the f*cking NATzO west.   Let them screech all they want about freedom of the press.   If
maggots like this are their best example of Russian repression, then most people on the planet will laugh at them.

Shoigu spoke about the attempts of the Russian opposition to infiltrate military facilities



The head of the Russian military department, Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the Federation Council, spoke about the attempts of the Russian "pro-Western" opposition to infiltrate Russian military facilities, as well as the dissemination of "fake" information.


According to the Minister of Defense, Western politicians and the media constantly make resonant accusations against Russia, such as interference in the US election, hacker attacks, concealment of military losses, while at the same time directly interfering in the internal affairs of the Russian state. Basically, Shoigu noted, this is done by the hands of the Russian opposition, which exists with Western funds. Shoigu told senators that Western opposition is being picked up by the Russian opposition, which is constantly receiving funds from its Western "employers" and is regularly trained abroad.

Hiding behind media laws, pro-Western activists try to infiltrate military installations and hunt for relatives and witnesses. They climb into the hospitals where our wounded lie, in cemeteries, in commemoration, in the families of our dead children. They remove the entrances and exits from our closed facilities and upload them to the Internet. One can imagine what responsibility they would be brought to in Western countries.

- said Shoigu.

The Minister of Defense drew attention to the fact that Russian legislation in this area has not been regulated, which does not allow criminal prosecution of these “activists”, and urged senators to pay attention to this issue.

https://topwar.ru/169419-shojgu-rasskzal-o-popytkah-rossijskoj-oppozicii-proniknut-na-voennye-obekty.html

GarryB wrote:I would suggest public exposure of what they did and also the funding they received specifically from each and every western source... that way the  themselves will be exposed but also the people funding and supporting and goading these people to do such things will also be exposed...

PhSt wrote:

GarryB wrote:I would suggest public exposure of what they did and also the funding they received specifically from each and every western source... that way the  themselves will be exposed but also the people funding and supporting and goading these people to do such things will also be exposed...

Problem is Exposing them isn't enough, they will just bitch about being persecuted by the Putin "Regime" and continue to spew their filth across the country and STILL manage to brainwash a handful of useful idiots that will be fooled into protesting in the streets and demand Russia's dissolution. Russia will need to take more aggressive actions to eliminate these 5th columnist rodents and at the same time supporting the formation of 5th columnist groups inside America. Russia has no other choice but to play the game with a dirtier hand.  

Problem is Exposing them isn't enough, they will just bitch about being persecuted by the Putin "Regime" and continue to spew their filth across the country and STILL manage to brainwash a handful of useful idiots that will be fooled into protesting in the streets and demand Russia's dissolution.

Russia will need to take more aggressive actions to eliminate these 5th columnist rodents and at the same time supporting the formation of 5th columnist groups inside America. Russia has no other choice but to play the game with a dirtier hand.

How Western media colludes with tiny Navalny-linked group of doctors to weaponize Russia’s Covid-19 battle

If you know the country well, you will know this: There are two Russias – the one 146 million people live in, and the fantasy version Western media outlets describe.
Both exist in parallel universes. This is why most English-speaking Russians usually react with a mixture of shock and horror when their language skills become proficient enough to read what the foreign press is writing about their homeland.

Now, predictably, Russia’s response to Covid-19 is being weaponized as part of the mythical ‘information war’. This is because Western media coverage of the country generally isn’t about journalism; instead, it’s about activism. This means that only Russians who fit its narrative are given agency.

For this reason, Alexei Navalny is presented as the “opposition leader,” despite the fact there is no united opposition in Russia, and other oppositionists have never selected him to lead them. To make it even more ridiculous, Navalny’s support lies at between one and two percent in Russian opinion polls – considerably behind Pavel Grudinin, for example, who basically doesn’t exist to consumers of the Western press. Grudinin is a former Communist Party presidential candidate, and when Russian outlets reported that he was blocked from entering parliament (the State Duma) last year, US and UK media essentially ignored his travails, presumably for fear of disrupting its narrative.

To appreciate the strange symbiosis between Navalny and the Western media, we need to look at maneuvering around the Covid-19 pandemic. Eager to find a way to attack the official response, some hacks have attached themselves to the Doctors Alliance – a tiny, yet influential, motley crew ‘union’ of medical workers, closely linked to the man himself. So much so, in fact, that it’s led by Navalny’s former personal ophthalmologist Anastasia Vasilyeva.

On the other hand, Russia’s biggest medical union – the Health Workers Union of the Russian Federation (HWURF) – is entirely anonymous in Western coverage, despite its membership totaling around three million.

Breaking rules
First, a disclaimer: A politically active workers union is nothing bad. In fact, it is undoubtedly a positive – as is any genuine desire to help out a medical system that is often critically understocked and has the potential to be entirely overwhelmed by the coronavirus.

The fact is, after almost three decades of hyper-neoliberal economics – initially egged on by the West – working conditions for doctors in Russian state hospitals are generally poor. What’s more, nobody can deny that many hospitals in the country need a lot of help to get up to a reasonable, acceptable standard.

Thus, this argument isn’t about unions as a concept, and does not assert that there are no problems with the Russian healthcare system. There are many. Instead, it’s about a group of activists masquerading as a ‘union’, who are not actively seeking to improve the life of doctors. Instead of actually helping out, Vasilyeva’s associates seem to be more interested in wooing the West.

On April 3, Vasilyeva and eleven other colleagues set off for Russia’s Novgorod Region, about 400km away from Moscow, ostensibly to deliver much-needed personal protective equipment for overworked doctors. Vasilyeva’s group broke strict quarantine laws, designed to stop the spread of Covid-19, to bring boxes of material – masks, respirators, and suits – to two local hospitals. The funding was collected as part of a new project called the ‘All-Russian Medical Inspectorate,’ which says it aims to supply doctors with vital equipment.

However, at the entrance to the town of Okulovka, just inside the state (oblast) border, the Doctors Alliance convoy of four cars, with three people in each (so much for ‘social distancing’), was escorted by local police to the station, where they were kept overnight.

All because Vasilyeva is the most prominent critic of Russia’s response to the coronavirus?

Well, that’s what you’d think if you relied on Western media to explain Russia.

In reality, the story is quite different.

Vasilyeva left her home in Moscow, a city now under strict quarantine with over 6,000 reported Covid-19 infections, on the pretext of providing medical care. As she has no registration in the Novgorod Region (which has 12 registered coronavirus cases), she knew she would be breaking the law before she had even crossed the regional frontier. It was publicly broadcast that Novgorod is presently locked down, due to fear of infection.

Thus, it’s clear Vasilyeva was fully aware she would be arrested. Indeed, the makeup of her eleven comrades essentially betrays that fact: it included a lawyer, a foreign reporter, and three cameramen, rather than a full complement of working, unionized doctors.

Aside from breaching coronavirus rules, she was also charged with disobeying the requests of a police officer – not getting out of her car and refusing an instruction to come to the police station to make a report. According to the Doctors Alliance, her arrest was “real fascism.”

If the goal was just to send equipment to a hospital, she could quietly have done it without breaking the law and creating a scene. All she had to do was simply send money electronically to local volunteers or arrange a special delivery. But it’s clear this was about PR.

Furthermore, on his personal online blog, Doctors Alliance cheerleader Alexei Navalny posted a document from the Ministry of Emergencies, listing the problems of medical institutions in each region. The PDF detailed issues in many different areas of the country – varying from mild to quite severe – and is an eye-opener to the difficulties Russia is facing in its battle against coronavirus. But the Novgorod Region, where Vasilyeva went? No shortages reported. Presumably, the likes of Tomsk, Arkhangelsk, and Astrakhan – which appear to urgently need help – are too far away to be worth the effort for these activists.

Subsequently, the head physician of the Borovichi Hospital (one of the two hospitals Vasilyeva supplied), recorded a video explaining that he did not know the original source of the equipment.

“Anastasia arrived from the city of Moscow, where there are mass quarantine measures regarding the infection of Covid-19, without any precautions. At the same time, she allegedly brought humanitarian aid in the form of medical masks. Again, it is not clear from which warehouses these masks are from. They had neither certificates nor registrations,” Vadim Ladyagin said.

Another head physician in Novgorod Region, Natalya Usatova of the Valdai Central District Hospital, told regional website 53 News that the local doctors didn’t understand Vasilyeva’s actions.

“If we actually did not have enough special protection, this could be done differently. This is a provocation – there is no other name for it. We, the doctors, did not understand this trick. Even we don’t allow ourselves to move around the region,” Usatova said. “After all, it is possible to clarify with the minister what we need and to involve volunteers in this work. The entire process in the region to combat coronavirus is controlled personally by the minister and the governor.”

Una voce
Despite these facts, Vasilyeva immediately used her arrest as a pretext to engage with foreign media outlets.

Vasilyeva spoke with the Associated Press, who uncritically titled their piece “Russia detains activists trying to help hospital amid virus.” She told the news agency that the arrest “was about breaking [her].”

https://www.rt.com/russia/485386-western-media-weaponized-russia-covid19/

par far wrote:An interesting article from the Saker.

https://thesaker.is/is-there-a-6th-column-trying-to-subvert-russia/

par far wrote:An interesting article from the Saker.

https://thesaker.is/is-there-a-6th-column-trying-to-subvert-russia/

kvs wrote:

PhSt wrote:

GarryB wrote:I would suggest public exposure of what they did and also the funding they received specifically from each and every western source... that way the  themselves will be exposed but also the people funding and supporting and goading these people to do such things will also be exposed...

Problem is Exposing them isn't enough, they will just bitch about being persecuted by the Putin "Regime" and continue to spew their filth across the country and STILL manage to brainwash a handful of useful idiots that will be fooled into protesting in the streets and demand Russia's dissolution. Russia will need to take more aggressive actions to eliminate these 5th columnist rodents and at the same time supporting the formation of 5th columnist groups inside America. Russia has no other choice but to play the game with a dirtier hand.  

Unfortunately, you are right.   Only Bloshevist USSR had the hard core suppression initiative.   Before 1917 Russia was super-soft on terrorists.  
They were not even shot but exiled to Siberia, and not to any camp but into civilian life.  To anyone with a clue, Siberia is not a "Hell hole" but
a natural paradise.   Preparing for winter is not any sort of punishment for the crime of terrorism.    We see the same soft-headed, kid glove
treatment of terrorists in Russia today.   But there is a glimmer of hope that the recent imprisonment of the "Set" gang sets a harsher tone.

miketheterrible wrote:https://antimaidan.ru/news/18989

Apparently Navalny had openly stated that the veterans of WWII are traitors and other nasty stuff.

He is being investigated for promotion of Nazism.