Politics

The presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed by phone the fight against coronavirus, regional issues and bilateral relations, Anadolu Agency reports

Trump thanked Russia for providing US humanitarian assistance

The Russian government has created within itself another government in narrow format – consisting of Prime Minister, his deputies and key Ministers Presidium. In normal times, this news would not even special mention. The Presidium of the government – this is a mandatory part of the gentlemanly set of any self-respecting Russian Cabinet of Ministers. But the current time can be called anything but ordinary. The country is rapidly moving towards a more ambitious phase of the epidemic coronavirus. Against this background, the possibility of most rapid adoption and execution of government decisions comes to the fore. The Presidium of the Cabinet of Ministers will clearly not redundant.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin supported the decrees of the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and Governor of Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, who on Sunday evening has introduced a mandatory self-isolation for all citizens living in the capital of the Moscow region.

The United States remains the leader in the number of confirmed cases of infection with coronavirus new type (more than 120 thousand people in the state on Sunday), ahead of China and Italy. More than 2,100 people died from Covid-19. Meanwhile, the President of the United States trump does not consider it necessary to impose strict quarantine measures in new York state, which recorded the most cases of infection.