Precis

Dr Anastasia Vasilyeva is an unlikely threat to Russia's most powerful man.

A single mother in her 30s, Dr Vasilyeva is an eye doctor who's set up a doctors' union.

But Dr Vasilyeva has been getting under the Kremlin's skin, provoking vicious attacks by President Putin's supporters.

"You are lying all the time. You are a group of liars...Do you even understand anything in virology?" rants a state TV presenter. "You are an alliance of crooks, scoundrels, villains and bastards."

"I'm only telling the truth...and all my sentences, all my words, I can prove with the facts", says the doctor.

Dr Vasilyeva's union - the Alliance of Doctors - is raising money to buy and deliver protective equipment to hospitals around the country. Her message of a health system under pressure is at odds with the Kremlin's line that everything is under control. Just two months ago, President Putin dismissed concerns about an epidemic, calling it 'fake news'. The pandemic wasn't part of President Putin's plans this year. He'd called a referendum which he hoped would install him as president until 2036. But as the number of Russians infected by the virus sharply rises, Putin has had to cancel the vote. He's struggling to keep control of the narrative. And the doctor.

Reported by former Russia correspondent Eric Campbell, Foreign Correspondent has gained rare access to film with Dr Vasilyeva and her team, as they travel around Moscow and beyond to deliver PPE to hospitals.

We see her get arrested and imprisoned. And we see her slandered by State media.

Today, Russia has the third highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world but in Moscow and other cities, the lockdown is starting to loosen.

Dr Vasilyeva warns the danger is far from over, with the virus taking off in the regions. She and her team continue to make deliveries, despite the abuse and the threats.

This is a compelling and disturbing insight into Russian politics in the time of Putin.

Putting at VE parade

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00:00

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: He's one of the world's most powerful men, and he says he has coronavirus handled.

00:05

Putin

VLADIMIR PUTIN: The situation is under complete control.

00:13

Vasilyeva delivering medical equipment

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: She's a humble doctor and she says he's lying.

00:15

Vasilyeva

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  The situation is not under control. In some hospitals, patients are dying without any help.

00:22

Vasilyeva delivering medical equipment

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Anastasia Vasilyeva heads a doctors' trade union that's challenging the Kremlin's propaganda. She's trying to bring hospitals the life-saving equipment they lack to fight the virus. The full force of the State has been used to stop her.

Vladimir Solovyov: "Why do you think you have a right to deliver something there?

00:28

TV excerpt. Solovyov

You don't have any authority. You are an ordinary crook."

00:50

Patients in hospital/ Vasilyeva

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: As Russia reels from infection, we look at the doctor taking on the might of the Kremlin.

00:54

Vasilyeva Skype interview

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA: They can only kill me, but they really have no chance to shut me down.

01:01

Split screen. Vasilyeva/Putin. Title:
The Doctor vs The President
REPORTER: Eric Campbell

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01:07

Cream Soda song/Tribute dancing in high rise. Super:
Moscow, Russia

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01:15

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: If anyone can endure the privations of lockdown, it's Russians.

01:25

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01:29

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: In the capital, Moscow 13 million people have been stoically staying inside and making the most of it.

01:38

Music

01:44

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: This song, from the band ‘Cream Soda’ has become the lockdown anthem – thousands posting videos of their balcony dancing. The band’s lead singer, Anna Romanovskaya is proud to have played a part in helping people get through.

01:48

Anna Romanovskaya interview

ANNA ROMANOVSKAYA, Cream Soda:  It's become something like a cult for people now, everybody needs to do this challenge, to take part in it, yes.

02:08

Tik Tok video

And people became very open and they show their artistic beginning.

02:17

Tribute dancing in high rise

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02:22

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: But like all Russians she feels the real stars of this crisis aren't the people staying at home.

00:26

Medics with patients

They’re the health workers going out to treat COVID’s casualties.

02:33

ANNA ROMANOVSKAYA, Cream Soda: I really feel pity for doctors and for medical workers because I can't believe they're doing this. I want to thank them for all of those things, because they are

02:38

Anna Romanovskaya interview

just putting their lives to save other lives.

02:48

Hospital interior. Doctors with patients

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Not since World War Two have so many people across Russia risked so much to do their duty. Health workers are dealing with more than 400,000 infections. Only the US and Brazil have more.

02:52

Putin visits hospital. Hazmat suit

Putin has long insisted he has their backs, even donning a hazmat suit to inspect a Moscow COVID facility.

03:13

Putin with hospital doctor

Vladimir Putin:  "I saw them work. Everyone is in their combat posts. I don't really want to use military language, but everything at your institution operates like clockwork, a well-oiled machine. I saw that your people know what needs to be done and how to do it. They have all they need and are using all the available equipment well."

03:23

Alliance of Doctors union footage. Tour of decrepit hospital

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03:51

Clip. Vasilyeva to camera

Anastasia Vasilyeva:  "Doctors, the Kremlin doesn't hear us."

03:57

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: But that’s not what this doctor has seen. Anastasia Vasilyeva is a 36-year-old ophthalmologist. She doesn’t treat

04:00

Clip. Doctors' Alliance

COVID patients but she’s made it her mission to get help to the medical workers who do.

04:08

Clip. Vasilyeva to camera/Touring hospital

Anastasia Vasilyeva:  "If you think I'm in a war zone, in Syria or Somalia, then you're wrong. I'm in the hospital number 6, at the very centre of Moscow. Six years ago, it was closed as unprofitable, doctors were cut, patients sent to other facilities."

04:14

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Her union, the Alliance of Doctors, runs a website exposing the dire state of Russia’s public health system.

04:29

Clip. Vasilyeva to camera

Anastasia Vasilyeva:  "We will travel across Russia to check medical facilities and provide doctors with protective equipment at places where the State cannot provide that protection."

04:38

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: It is a direct challenge to President Putin.

04:47

Clip. Putin in hazmat suit

Anastasia Vasilyeva:  "Have you seen Putin’s protective gear when he visited the infection diseases hospital? That’s right! The State takes care of the President to avoid him getting sick. Why doesn’t he want the State to take care of doctors to avoid them getting sick?

04:51

Clip. Vasilyeva to camera

I’ve bought this mask and this protective suit myself and I assure you that 99% of Russian medics don’t have such protection or the money to buy it themselves."

05:07

Vasilyeva into apartment

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Dr. Vasilyeva may seem an unlikely nemesis to the Kremlin strongman. She lives in a quiet middle-class neighbourhood of Moscow.

05:31

Vasilyeva: "I always take the stairs, it’s the fourth floor. You can use the lift."

05:40

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Her small apartment is the lockdown headquarters of the Alliance of Doctors.

05:48

Vasilyeva and Campbell Skype

Eric: "Anastasia, dobri dien, kak dyela."

Vasilyeva: "Hi, how are you?"

05:57

Eric: "I'm very well, thank you. Thank you very much for talking to us."

06:06

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: I’ve been following her campaign on Skype and through Moscow crews we’ve hired to film her. I want to find out why such a powerful State is so desperate for a doctor’s good deeds to be punished.

06:10

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  That's why government doesn't want us to show these problems. And of course, they do everything now to stop us to, interfere our actions.

06:24

Putin. Meeting

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: For Putin, this is not just about a virus. It’s about his own political survival. For weeks, as the disease spread around the world, the Kremlin insisted Russia was safe. At this March 4 meeting, the deputy prime minister Tatyana Golikova described reports of an epidemic as fake news.

06:35

Tatyana Golikova: "I would like to once again report to you that this is simply not true."

06:59

Vladimir Putin: "Regarding the provocative ‘fake news’ stories, the Federal Security Service reports that they were organised from abroad."

07:05

State media TV. 

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: State media amplified the message – the government’s coronavirus spokesman, Dr. Alexander Myasnikov, repeatedly downplaying it.

07:13

State TV. Alexander Myasnikov

Alexander Myasnikov: "I don’t know why we need this hysteria today, because in reality this coronavirus is not very contagious. It is much less contagious than measles. Its mortality rate is not very high."

07:29

Trudolyubov walking street wearing mask.

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter:  Maxim Trudolyubov is editor at large of the independent Russian business daily Vedomosti. He’s weathering the lockdown in neighbouring Lithuania.

07:47

Trudolyubov interview

MAXIM TRUDOLYUBOV, Vedomosti: State-run television in Russia is a tool of political power, so it's just been doing what it was told to do. They were calling it a Chinese virus, just like President Trump. They were saying that those were probably some biological weapons that escaped from a lab or something. So they've been really silly, and that was clearly a Kremlin policy. In the beginning, they wanted to downplay the crisis because Putin obviously had his politics on his mind then.

08:00

Putin inauguration

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: The deadly infection intruded into Putin's plan to be president for life. He's currently serving the last term allowed under the constitution. On March 10, he called a referendum that would allow him to rule until 2036.

08:32

Putin announces referendum in Congress

Vladimir Putin: "You will decide on April 22."

08:53

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Putin wanted a hundred million Russians to come out in the middle of a pandemic to queue to vote for him.

MAXIM TRUDOLYUBOV, Vedomosti:  This whole year, 2020, was supposed to be about bolstering his political role in Russia

09:02

Trudolyubov interview

and then suddenly there's something that steals the show completely from him.

09:16

Subway/Stores/Red Square during lockdown

My

09:20

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: On March 25, as the virus took hold in Russia, Putin reluctantly delayed the referendum and retreated to his estate outside Moscow. It was left to the city mayor to organise the lockdown – ordering residents to stay indoors except for essential work, shopping or dog walking.

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Vasilyeva and colleagues load cars with medical supplies

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09:53

Vasilyeva:  "Hello! Hello!"

09:55

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Anastasia Vasilyeva has not stayed locked down. It’s Monday morning outside her apartment block, and she and her colleagues are getting ready to do a run. Doctors from three hospitals have contacted them asking for protective equipment.

10:00

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  In large boxes there are respirators, in small boxes, antiseptic. There are also boxes with suits, masks and gloves.  I think they  are already in my car. This is our preparation.

10:21

Vasilyeva and colleagues deliver supplies

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: They have to move fast and stealthily. While the medical staff are desperate for what they can bring, she says hospital administrations have been told not to accept it.

10:41

Vasilyeva puts on protective suit

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  Now we'll put the suit on. These suits are reusable, they are clean and washed.

10:54

Driving supplies to Novgorod. Police car with siren

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: On April 2 they set out with more than 500 masks, along with hazmat suits, gloves and protective glasses, to a hospital in the Novgorod region, 400 kilometres from Moscow. Halfway there, they were stopped by police.

11:14

Vasilyeva interview

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  We just wanted to help. We just wanted to bring this PPE to the hospitals, to the hospitals and to the medical workers.

11:33

Police question Vasilyeva on roadside

But I think that these policemen, they had an order from the officials.

11:45

Vasilyeva: "We raised money all over the country to buy it and you are detaining us. You're supposed to protect the country. What are you doing here? What would your mother, who could die of coronavirus, say?"

11:51

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Police told them they were being taken in for questioning.

12:04

Vasilyeva to camera

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  There are two cars behind us and there’s one car far away, take a look.  They are taking us to the Department of Internal Affairs, instead of coming with us to deliver PPE to a hospital, they're hindering us.

12:08

Vasilyeva and man with police officer.

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: To protect themselves, they had brought along a lawyer and their cameras.

12:25

Man: "I don't see you wearing a badge of a police officer now."

Police officer:  "Please follow us one by one for an explanation."

Man: "To go where? I’m not detained."

12:31

Vasilyeva to camera on roadside

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  We are appealing to Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.  You, Vladimir Vladimirovich, have a very nice imported hazmat suit, but medics don’t any have any PPE.   We have raised money all over the country, all Russia helps us deliver PPE.  But your subordinates, the police, have stopped us and don’t let us do this.  It seems we have to ask you personally to get a pass, to supply medics with PPE.

12:46

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: As they waited in town for questioning, the hospital’s doctors managed to find them to collect the equipment.

13:16

Doctors collect equipment

HOSPITAL DOCTOR: We thank them very much for this help because there’s a shortage at the hospital.  There's nothing anywhere, it’s impossible to buy masks in pharmacies, so we're very grateful.

13:25

Police drag Vasilyeva away from colleagues and into van

13:40

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: As night fell, police pounced on Dr. Vasilyeva, dragging her away from her colleagues. She was released after she passed out in the melee. But a short time later even more officers grabbed her, taking her by force to a police lockup.

13:46

Vasilyeva at police station

She was kept in a cell overnight, in seeming contravention of Russian law.

14:31

Vasilyeva: "You have no right, I have children under 14."

Officer: "You’ve left them alone there."

Vasilyeva: "You've been keeping me here for 10 hours.

Man: "So you have the information that she has children and you want to arrest her now?" 

14:39

Officer:  "She didn’t give us any information."

Man: "She is telling you now, and you must check it with the information registers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  You must check, you can't detain a woman with children under 14 for more than three hours."

Vasilyeva:  "You have no right to detain me."

14:53

Man:  "She won’t go anywhere without a lawyer. There’s no right to detain her for more than three hours."

15:10

Solovyov program excerpt

15:15

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Back in Moscow, the attacks continued. Vladimir Solovyov is a prominent State TV host and YouTube shock jock. Tonight’s target – Dr. Vasilyeva and her Alliance of Doctors.

15:21

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15:35

Vladimir Solovyov: "What are you talking about, crazy? What kind of alliance of doctors are you? You are an alliance of crooks, scoundrels, villains and bastards.  You are lying all the time, you are a group of liars. Why do you drive a car without documents?  Why do you break the rules and travel outside of Moscow? You went to the hospital with patients. How do you know that you are not contagious? Do you even understand anything in virology? Where did you get your diploma from? Who gave it to you? Who taught you? You are an ophthalmologist! You could be such a virologist - like a bullet made of shit! Oh, sorry, it’s a bad word."

15:44

Sick nurses in laundry room/Patients in corridors

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16:24

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: For months now, health workers have tried to air their grievances on social media. In Dagestan, sick nurses were housed in a laundry room while they waited to be tested for the virus. At this hospital in Saint Petersburg, patients spilled out into the corridors.

16:28

Doctor pleads for help

Doctor:  "We do not refuse to work. We love our patients and we want everyone to recover. But it’s impossible to work in such unsafe conditions."

16:49

Website footage

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: The Alliance for Doctors has featured their pleas on its website.

17:06

Dr. Revva footage from website

Dr. Tatyana Revva:  "Friends, my name is Tatyana. I’m a resuscitation anaesthetist. We don’t have hazmat suits, we don’t have N95 or FFP respirators, we don’t have special protective shields, we don’t have glasses or skin antiseptics."

17:11

State media report. Hospital administrator shows supplies

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: But most Russians have only seen State media reports where hospital managers denounce the alliance’s videos as lies.

17:32

State News Reporter: "Obviously, everything is completely different from what Tatyana Revva said. Each video has about 20-30 thousand views, not so many, but it distracts medics from their professional duties because they're walking through hospitals with phone cameras to refute another fake."

17:44

Navalny rally

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: It’s not just her stance on COVID 19 that has made Dr. Vasilyeva such a target of State media. It’s the company she keeps. Alexei Navalny is the closest thing Russia has to a genuine opposition leader, leading mass rallies against Putin in between stints in prison.

18:03

Alexei Navalny: "Do you need a monarchy?"

Crowd: "No."

18:29

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  Three years ago, honestly, I was not interested in politics at all,

18:33

Vasilyeva interview

I really thought that Putin was a great president. I did not know who Navalny was. When he came to me for treatment in 2017, I honestly did not know who he was at all.

18:37

Navalny with dye in face

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: In 2017 he suffered an eye injury when green dye was thrown in his face.

18:46

Alexei Navalny: "I’ve got a very stylish face that perfectly matches the colour of our campaign headquarters."

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: He sought treatment from the ophthalmology clinic where Dr Vasilyeva and her mother worked.

18:56

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  We successfully cured Alexei. Everything was fine. A year later, mass layoffs started at the Institute of Eye Diseases.  They even tried to fire my mother, they did fire her, and many other employees.

19:07

Navalny office

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Navalny gave her free lawyers to fight the cutbacks and advised her on how to form a union.

19:23

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  We registered it and began working in November.

19:30

Vasilyeva working at laptop on kitchen table

My goal has always been to help healthcare workers.

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Until the lockdown, she worked out of Navalny’s office. The Alliance of Doctors is now run from this laptop on her kitchen table.

19:37

Vasilyeva:  "There’s a doctor who works in an Ossetian hospital."

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: She liaises with colleagues across Russia, edits the website and raises funds for personal protective equipment.

19:52

Katja and Vasilyeva cook

All this, while looking after her 14-year-old daughter, Katja, who is home schooling during the lockdown.

20:07

Vasilyeva: "We need to buy more apples."

Katja: "No, there are some."

Vasilyeva: "Have you washed them? Tell me honestly."

Katja: "Yes, of course."

Vasilyeva: "Look."

Katja:  "What?"

Vasilyeva: "Have you washed them?"

Katja:  "Yes, Mum, I have washed them. This is… This is…"

20:16

Katja interview

KATJA:  I always support my mother very much and I see how she's editing the website.  I don't know if she sleeps at all.

20:31

Vasilyeva serves dinner

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Not only is her mother treated as an enemy of the State; her father, who is also a doctor, is battling to treat COVID patients.

20:41

Vasilyeva interview

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  My ex-husband, he is now, he’s working in, a corona hospital and he said that it’s very difficult to work. With the lack of PPE, they have no chance to eat, to drink.

20:51

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: The longer we spent with Dr Vasilyeva, the clearer it was that the constant harassment was taking a toll.

21:04

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  Now I’m really very tired with this, with the crying of medical workers and just trying to resolve their problems.

21:11

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Dr.  Vasilyeva, it can be very dangerous to challenge the Kremlin. A lot of journalists have been killed. You've been very brave, but do you worry about your own safety?

21:25

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA: I really do not afraid of anybody and anything because what they really can do for me. I’m only telling the truth. And just all my sentences, all my words I can prove, really, with the facts. And that’s why I’m not afraid of anybody, I’m not frightened by the actions of government, by their words.

21:38

Vasilyeva delivering medical supplies to hospital

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22:07

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Today, she and her colleagues are outside a hospital again trying to deliver equipment.

22:13

Vasilyeva:  "Won’t the chief doctor be against us? How should we deliver this?"

22:21

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: They first have to work out if the hospital administration will accept it.

22:25

Vasilyeva and colleagues in hazmat suits waiting outside hospital

They wait nervously, dressed in protective gear in case they get the all clear, joking to break the tension.

22:32

Man: "Now you're definitely a ninja."

Vasilyeva: "Huh?"

Man: "Now you're definitely a ninja in the hood."

Vasilyeva: "How is it?"

22:40

Vasilyeva and colleagues unload supplies

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: This time, to their relief, they don't have to deliver in secret.

Vasilyeva: "It seems that here the chief doctor is not against our help. It’s very cool we can bring supplies to doctors and make them safe. So now we are delivering  to the clinic, number 205 of the southwestern district."

22:50

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: It seems a turning point for their operation.

23:15

Delivering supplies into hospital

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  It’s the first time there is such a normal attitude. Usually they attack us.

23:21

Vasilyeva interview on street

It's probably reached the point where it’s absurd to attack us and to say we don't need anything, we have everything, when everyone understands there's a shortage and doctors can get sick and a clinic can be quarantined so people stop getting help.

23:28

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23:46

Vasilyeva out of car at hospital, unloading supplies

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: But their relief is short-lived.

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  Here is the conspiracy.

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: At this hospital, they're not allowed to enter. Doctors have to meet them outside and load the supplies into their cars.

23:50

Vasilyeva: "Let’s carry quickly. Is that all?"

24:08

Music

24:11

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  They are scared. Health workers are scared, unfortunately. 

24:19

Vasilyeva with man outside hospital

Man: "Thank you for raising money."

Vasilyeva: "We hope that it will be easier and safer for doctors to work with the protective equipment that we deliver."

Man: "Yes."

Vasilyeva:  "Say hello to them."

Man:  "Thank you."

24:26

Man behind fence filming

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: They leave quickly when they spot an unidentified man filming them.

24:43

Vasilyeva into car, drives away

Music

24:47

State TV footage.  Putin in iso-bunker

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Since the early days of downplaying the danger, State television has switched course, showing Putin as a man of action leading the fight from his iso-bunker. The Kremlin has now acknowledged the virus's exponential spread, with as many as 10,000 new cases a day, among them the Prime Minister. But it's reporting a remarkably low death rate of around one per cent, which officials put down to superior health care.

24:56

Golikova

Tatyana Golikova: "It's true that the mortality rate in Russia is 7.6 times lower compared to the world average.  We have never manipulated official statistics." 

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  I don't believe, I know, I know it's

25:26

Vasilyeva skype interview

a very terrible lie. It's the same virus, but in Russia maybe we have some magic medicine.

25:48

Moscow streets

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25:59

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: The lockdown is finally easing. Putin has ordered regional governors to start getting life back to normal. Dr Vasilyeva believes Moscow’s infection has peaked, but she fears worse is to come.

26:04

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA: In a lot of regions of Russia, the self-isolation is finished. But in some regions there, it's only the beginning of the infection.  So what we can get now, in the regions, there will be a terrible situation with a lot of patients with coronavirus.

26:21

VE ceremony. Putin lays wreath

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter:  Putin is already planning his next celebrations of political glory. In May, he had to postpone celebrations of the end of World War Two. Instead of holding a military parade in Red Square, he could only lay a solitary wreath. But he’s now ordered mass parades across Russia at the end of June.

26:41

Putin. Address at Kremlin

Vladimir Putin:  "We will hold them on June 24, the day in 1945 when the historical Victory Parade was held."

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: And he’s declared there will be a public vote to extend his rule on July 1.

27:06

St. Petersburg GVs

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27:27

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: Meanwhile, the death toll of doctors keeps rising. In Russia’s second city, Saint Petersburg,

27:35

Memorial photos health workers on fence

friends and relatives place photos of health workers who have died from coronavirus. This unofficial memorial is opposite the city’s health department, so bureaucrats have to see the daily casualties.

27:42

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  A very big quantity of medical workers died now. It's about 200. It’s not official statistics, medical workers themselves writing this list.

27:58

ERIC CAMPBELL, Reporter: For Anastasia Vasilyeva, there is just one way to honour them and it’s worth any price.

28:10

ANASTASIA VASILYEVA:  We are helping medical workers and I know that we are supporting them and they are supporting me.

28:21

Vasilyeva skype interview

I want very much to help out people, to help medical workers. Really, I just, it's my wish. It's my dream to help them and, I'm ready for everything.

28:27

Vasilyeva and colleagues unload supplies.

Credits [see below]

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28:40

Doctor:  "Thank you very much."

29:15

Outpoint after credits

29:24