Alla Mozhdzhenskaya 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.
How three Soviet-era photographers caught the attention of KGB officers and were later declared enemies of the state.
Locals in one rundown Siberian village have a plan to rename their community Syria and then apply to Moscow for humanitarian aid.
