Timonin et al article adds weight to a need to address geographical health inequalities in Russia.
There is hope that these geographical inequalities in health can be reduced with the appropriate political will and infrastructure. Evidence from England has shown how life expectancy between the 20% most deprived districts and the rest of the country increased during a period when there was largely an absence of policy interventions aiming to reduce geographical inequalities (1983–2003), whereas there was a reduction during…