title: Russia's Fight Against Covid-19
abstract: This chapter considers the preliminary results drawn and lessons learned of how the Russian federal government and regions counteracted the Covid-19 pandemic. We point out the specific nature of Russia's fight against Covid-19 that set it apart from a few other countries, as well as delineate both adverse and favourable factors and conditions. Russia is an asymmetric federation with an excessively centralised and low-quality state administration system. Such conditions led to apprehensions that 