Putin was not vaccinated for a long time from Covid - but he does not need. A total and very expensive protection system was created for the president, when everyone sits in quarantine except him

The Office of the President of Russia spent at least 6.4 billion rubles on the observation of people who regularly contact or are preparing to meet with Vladimir Putin, the Russian BBC service found out . This system is built to protect the president from infection with coronavirus.

Many visited a temporary isolation before meeting with the Head of State: the pilots and stewardesses of the Russian Air detachment, visiting Putin’s press conferences, journalists who maintain the presidential staff and doctors. Before the Victory Parade, on June 24, quarantine veterans were put on the Great Patriotic War, who were at the ceremony next to Putin. Most likely, many employees of the presidential administration, federal ministers, heads of state corporations and (probably) even the head of foreign states went through this multi -day procedure.

People were placed in hotels, sanatoriums and boarding houses for the Presidential Affairs Management in Moscow, Moscow Region, Sochi and Yalta. On quarantine, they sat from several days to several months. Before Putin’s press conference in mid-December 2020, reporters of the presidential pool could not leave the rooms, communicate with each other and transfer things.

According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, Putin was instilled only on March 23-by this time, vaccination in the country had been going on for more than three months. What drug Putin was vaccinated is unknown. At the same time, the observation system before meeting with the head of state is still functioning.

In the podcast “What happened” we say with the correspondent of the “Russian BBC service” by Anna Pushkarskaya, the author of the investigation about this system.

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