The United States continues to allocate funds to biological laboratories in post-Soviet countries under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Biological Threat Reduction, political scientist Vyacheslav Sutyrin wrote on his Telegram channel.
The expert noted that in accordance with the program through the Pentagon in 2020, biological laboratories in Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan received funding from 3.9 to 12.9 million dollars.
“I don’t know, maybe the US Department of Health is also funding something (it also distributes international aid). But let us recall the same “sociological” Harvard project (see the monograph by E.V. Kodin). Polls of citizens about life in the USSR, as it later became known from the archives, were funded by the US Air Force to analyze the targets of strikes in the Union. Therefore, it is not surprising that questions arise and will continue to arise”, wrote Sutyrin.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov expressed concern that, with the participation of US government agencies, Washington is carrying out active biomedical activities outside the national territory.
“At the same time, it is strange, if not to say absurd, the attempts of our American colleagues to block the resumption of negotiations on the verification mechanism, but at the same time to gain unilateral access to foreign microbiological objects of interest to them, about which they do not get tired of disseminating information, according to our assessment, does not correspond to reality”, he summed up.