Anton Barsukov is a correspondent for Siberia.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A COVID-19 patient in Kemerovo was discharged from the hospital in a coma. This case and others point to a health-care system strained to the limits, and a political system sometimes dominated by denial.
Advocates of a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the center of Novosibirsk believe they have an ally in the city's communist mayor, while opponents say the proposal is being pushed through without considering the feelings of relatives of his millions of victims.
