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Europe & Russia
Trump Offers Help on Russia’s Plague Case, and the Kremlin Says It Did Not Hear a Problem
Trump says a call with Putin on the Irkutsk plague case is scheduled. Rubio asks Russia for more information, and Peskov accepts help but disputes the premise.
Oct 7, 20264 min read
Europe & Russia
Russia’s Irkutsk Plague Death Is No Ordinary News, and Moscow’s Silence Is the Danger
A technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute died after reportedly breaking a tube of plague bacteria, and about 200 contacts are isolated. Russia calls it pneumonia of unknown cause. A country at war is not a reliable narrator of its own outbreak.
Oct 6, 20267 min read

Trump Offers Help on Russia’s Plague Case, and the Kremlin Says It Did Not Hear a Problem