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For today’s Geo Quiz we’re looking for a country that’s suffering from a scorching heatwave and its worst drought in over a century. The answer is Russia. Anchor Marco Werman speaks finds out more from Oleg Baldyrev with the BBC Russian Service in Moscow.

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