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Daughter of pro-Kremlin intellectual killed in car explosion; Plus more COVID questions

Former member of Russia’s Duma, Ilya Ponomarev in 2021. Ponomarev, who was ousted from the Duma for his anti-Kremlin sentiments says the National Republican Army is behind the assassination of Darya Dugina. | Still taken from a video posted by Free Russia Forum licensed under CC BY 3.0

On today’s show:

0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest news from Russia’s war in Ukraine, including the unsolved murder of Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, a Russian propogandist and the daughter of a pro-Kremlin intellectual.

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer our listeners COVID questions.