RUSSIAN ACTIVIST URGES GREATER ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN JOINT COMBAT AGAINST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

In a letter to his Indian counterpart, President of Russian Society for Friendship with India, Mr Evgeny Shilnikov has called for the joint combat against COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken huge toll in the world and is keeping more than half of humankind in their homes to prevent the spread of coronavirus which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January.

 

In his letter to Mr Bhubaneswar Kalita, President of India-Russia Foundation, Mr Shilnikov has recalled the unity of the humankind in difficult times including the Second World War.