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MOSCOW — Fears of radioactive contamination from the crippled nuclear plant in Japan are spreading to Russia’s Far East. Residents there are ignoring official assurances that there is no danger and are beginning to stockpile food, medicines and face masks.
“People are in a panic,” said Dmitri Mukhotin, a spokesman for Pharma Premium, a chain of pharmacies in the region, where there has been a run on iodine products and other items that are thought to protect the body from fallout or from radiation sickness.
“We are trying to calm people and in no case are recommending that they use these medicines,” Mukhotin said.
Denver Post wire services
