MOSCOW—When Russian President Vladimir Putin finally decided to admit at the end of last month that this country had not been spared the wave of disease sweeping over its Chinese and European neighbors, and called on Russians to take seriously the threat he had ignored, he asked them “not to rely on our good old Russian avos’.”
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A young woman wearing a face mask, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, walks on Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in downtown Moscow on March 25, 2020.
