Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, your guide to developments beyond the Russian capital from The Moscow Times. The death of a lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region ...

A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited ...

Nearly 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region over suspected exposure to plague, according to local media reports.

No secondary cases have been confirmed, but experts say Russia’s response and lack of answers warrant continued scrutiny ...

Japan has asked Russia to provide information following the death of a worker at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk from pneumonia l ...

A laboratory worker died after developing pneumonia, while reports of a possible plague exposure remain unconfirmed and Russia faces scrutiny over its biological-weapons history.

An aluminum factory and multiple hospitals in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast have instituted preventative measures, including quarantines and mask mandates, following a laboratory worker's recent death by ...

Several hospitals in Irkutsk had imposed three-week quarantines, the news outlet People of Baikal reported on October 4. City Clinical Hospitals No. 1, No. 3, and No. 10 and the Ivano-Matreninskaya ...

The White House and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring a suspected pneumonic plague incident in Russia's Irkutsk region after a 28-year-old laboratory researcher died ...

In the village of Zalog, Kachugsky district, Irkutsk region, on the night of Friday, October 23, a wild bear tried to enter ...

A laboratory worker’s death from unexplained pneumonia exposes how little information is known and shared about high risk ...

Following reports of a suspicious death and quarantine at Russia's Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute, analysts are calling for transparency and international investigation amidst historical ...