Remembering Russia’s first Covid victims | RT Documentary

   

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Published on May 29, 2020

In this film, RT's Anton Krasovsky honours some of the first #coronavirus victims to die in Russia. Prominent physicist Mishik Kazaryan and his wife, epidemiologist, Arpik Asratyan, lived together for 45 years and died 10 days apart in Moscow’s main Covid hospital, Kommunarka. Documentary filmmaker and producer Aleksandr Radov died of Covid complications after turning for help too late. Danila Tlisov, a 36-year-old physicist died, upon his return to Moscow after working at CERN in Switzerland. They all died at the beginning of the massive coronavirus outbreak in Moscow, when #doctors couldn’t diagnose the virus at its early stages. Family members remember their loved ones, explain why some of them hadn’t even believed #Covid existed, and describe how quickly the virus took their relatives.

00:00 - 1:43 In memory of documentary director Aleksandr Radov
2:33 ‘It just couldn’t be true, he was too young’
4:33 ‘These bitches will turn anything into a PR stunt’
5:32 In memory of experimental physicist Mishik Kazaryan and epidemiologist Arpik Asratyan
7:27 In memory of nuclear physicist Danila Tlisov
9:49 ‘I was so skeptical about this whole coronavirus thing’
15:03 ‘We all got infected’
19:20 ‘Hospitals should not look like that’
24:16 ‘A bit fatigued’
26:33 How Radov’s wife learned of his passing
30:11 A love story ended by Covid
31:48 ‘He had that one favourite song’
33:00 ‘In his entire 72 years of life, it was the first time I heard him complain’
36:36 Last goodbye

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