Rifles up | Anti-lockdown protesters hold demo in front & inside Michigan State Capitol

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During the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic, lockdown has come to mean the practice of attempting to control transmission of the virus by means of restricting people’s movement and activities on a broad scale, usually on a national or state-wide basis.

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Depressed and suicidal | Lockdown takes heavy toll on French students

Chinese government film marks year since Wuhan lockdown

Experts on the new Covid variant and whether England’s third lockdown is working

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London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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Experts on the new Covid variant and whether England’s third lockdown is working

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U.K. Says Covid-19 May No Longer Be Spreading Exponentially

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In This Story: Moscow

Moscow, on the Moskva River in western Russia, is the nation’s cosmopolitan capital. In its historic core is the Kremlin, a complex that’s home to the president and tsarist treasures in the Armoury. Outside its walls is Red Square, Russia’s symbolic center. It’s home to Lenin’s Mausoleum, the State Historical Museum’s comprehensive collection and St. Basil’s Cathedral, known for its colorful, onion-shaped domes.

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Why did Hungary break ranks with EU to license Russian Covid-19 vaccine?

Is Hungary breaking from EU rules in authorizing Russia’s anti-Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine first?

In This Story: Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.

Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.

The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.

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Why did Hungary break ranks with EU to license Russian Covid-19 vaccine?

Is Hungary breaking from EU rules in authorizing Russia’s anti-Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine first?

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