Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. At a briefing in Moscow on March 7, 2022, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov presented documents on recent biological research projects at labs in Ukraine supported by U.S. funding. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Kirillov claimed that a shipment of chemical . Kirillov also stated, without evidence, that a swine flu outbreak in 2007 and increased cases of measles, rubella, diphtheria, and tuberculosis in Ukraine had somehow been caused by biological research at U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine and the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Russian scientists to 'extract zombie viruses from dead bodies of How the right embraced Russian disinformation about 'U.S. bioweapons Russia was reportedly developing smallpox-based weapons as late as 1988. [4][45] The death toll was at least 66, but no one knows the precise number, because all hospital records and other evidence were destroyed by the KGB, according to former Biopreparat deputy director Kenneth Alibek. And weapons developed in secret Soviet labs are still used to poison Russian dissidents and defectors. 2015 Predictions: Zombie Apocalypse Virus Becomes Possible Via An This decree established a secret network of BW institutes within the USSR Ministry of Agriculture. Counter-proliferation efforts of the Nunn-Lugar Biological Threat Reduction program successfully averted technology transfer to authoritarian neighbors such as Iran during the decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The NKVD now switched its focus to apprehending any personnel associated with Units 100 and 731 and began a process of filtration of the 560,000-760,000 Japanese prisoners of war. Russia's Defense Ministry says the United States appears to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international rules and posing a direct . I guess we shall see., Russia makes claims of US-backed biological weapon plot at UN, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning.