Putin suffers cardiac event

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The government has been very lackadaisical over this and a lot of older people are paying the price (about 10 dying a week), but I guess they are considered expendable these days, with the pressing need to get the economic treadmill going again so the boss class can skim the profits as is their wont since time immemorial.

much as I agree with your sentiment, there was an election looming and a pressing need to get re-elected, and an awful lot of somewhat less concerned with other people, people, already unhappy with how long the mandates had been in force.  Labour were damned either way unfortunately...