Vitaly Ivanov’s feet feel so heavy he can barely get out of bed. But with difficulty, and some pain, he manages to leave his apartment just in time for the hospital appointment to find out the results of his liver biopsy. In the chilly autumn rain, Ivanov trudges through the streets around his home city of Nizhny Novgorod, a 57-year-old single man who is about to discover he has an untreatable cancer.
His story is typical of his place and time in Russia. In fact, he has already lived two years longer than many millions of his fellow Russian men. Russia …read more
Source: Newsweek
