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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Italian former PM faces renewed questions over Covid aid from Russia

Supplies for Italy are loaded on to a cargo plane at a military airport outside Moscow in March 2020
Supplies for Italy are loaded on to a cargo plane at a military airport outside Moscow in March 2020. Photograph: Alexei Yereshko/AP

Italy’s former prime minister Giuseppe Conte is under pressure to clarify an arrangement under which Russia supplied aid to Italy early in the coronavirus pandemic, as questions resurface over the Kremlin’s motives.

Conte, who was forced to resign last year after the collapse of his second administration, could face questioning by Copasir, a parliamentary committee for the security of Italy, amid concerns that Russia may have exploited the aid mission for espionage.

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