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"WE can say one thing: Russia has nothing to do with these attempts; we do not accept such accusations."
This was how the official spokesman for Russia's President Vladimir Putin responded last week to accusations from Britain, Canada and the United States that Russian spies were targeting pharmaceutical companies and medical laboratories in Western countries, with the aim of stealing research into a Covid-19 vaccine.
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