ИСТИНА

The present day mosaic of country types is a result of a long-term process of evolution of the politically fragmented global society. The natural and though predicted development of the countries as political, social, economic and cultural entities in the past was many times interrupted by rebellions, wars, natural disasters and epidemics. The impact of these sudden events could lead to drastic changes on the world map, and to emerging of a new system of country types. The founder of country typology as research field in geography, professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University Ivan Vitver and his successor academic Viktor Volsky paid attention to these phenomena. But nobody could predict how profound the consequences of the pandemic like the Covid-19 will be for most of the country types. It is too early to analyze these consequences as a whole, not to mention that the pandemic is still far from over. Moreover, there is no full data yet. But we сan draw changes, which the pandemic will impose on different types of the countries and indicate the most vulnerable and most resistant of them.