• The All-Union Science Production Association Biopreparat (Russian: Биопрепарат, lit: "biological preparation") was a Soviet agency created in April 1974...
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    administrative management expert. He was the first deputy director of Biopreparat. During his career in Soviet bioweaponry development in the late 1970s...
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    Kanatzhan Baizakovich Alibekov had been a biological weapons scientist for Biopreparat, describes a quite separate strand of early BW research being pursued...
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  • Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia. According to former Deputy Director of Biopreparat Ken Alibek, this laboratory was possibly involved in the design of an...
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    the program of biological weapons was run primarily by the "civilian" Biopreparat agency, although it also included numerous facilities run by the Soviet...
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    the main character, Vladislav Kerenski. 1971 Aral smallpox incident Biopreparat Ken Alibek Kantubek Gruinard Island in Scotland, a British anthrax test...
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    smallpox virus, and was part of the system of laboratories known as the Biopreparat. The facility was upgraded and secured using modern cameras, motion sensors...
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    program, under the leadership of the allegedly civilian institution Biopreparat. The Soviet Union attracted international suspicion after the 1979 Sverdlovsk...
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    –British inspection team to tour four of its main weapons facilities at Biopreparat. The inspectors were met with evasion and denials from the Soviet scientists...
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  • of Moscow's clandestine biological warfare (BW) programme, known as Biopreparat. His revelations that the program was ten times larger than previously...
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  • his honor. It was also under research by the Soviet Union, under the Biopreparat bureau. Investigational vaccines exist for Argentine hemorrhagic fever...
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    Kazakhstan was also a prominent site of Soviet programs of biological (only Biopreparat outside of Russia) and chemical weapons. The former Soviet Union conducted...
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  • biological warfare facilities operated by the Soviet Union. It was the only Biopreparat facility to be built outside of Russia proper, and one of the few ever...
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  • name of a modern settlement (established 1975 as a base for the Soviet Biopreparat biological weapons program, and named for the historical city) in Serpukhovsky...
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    biological weapons program under the oversight of the "civilian" institution Biopreparat within the Soviet Ministry of Health. The Soviet program employed up...
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    Fort Detrick – comparable facilities in the United States of America Biopreparat – comparable facility in the former USSR Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia...
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  • intelligence about the clandestine biological warfare (BW) programme, Biopreparat. The programme was in contravention of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention...
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    be weaponised for use in biological warfare, and was investigated by Biopreparat for such use, but might be difficult to prepare as a weapon of mass destruction...
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    floating in public discourse.. According to former deputy director of Biopreparat Ken Alibek, that laboratory was possibly involved in the design of an...
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  • Kanatjan Alibekov Bioweapons chief Kazakhstan 1992 Former director of Biopreparat; defected to United States Stanislav Lunev GRU agent Russia 1992 Defected...
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  • the first Soviet bioweaponeer to flee to the West. Pasechnik described Biopreparat, the Soviet biological weapons program, to MI6, including their genetically...
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  • operations, and civilian populations." Ken Alibek, former director of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union's largest biological warfare program, said that China...
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  • after the Biological Weapons Convention prompted the formation of the Biopreparat directorate at the Soviet Union Ministry of Health. It reached a peak...
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  • research and production of offensive biological weapons in a program called Biopreparat, despite having signed the convention. The United States had no solid...
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  • Biomethanation Bionanotechnology Bioneers Bionics Biopiracy Bioplastic Biopreparat Bioprospecting Biorefinery Bioregional democracy Bioremediation Biosafety...
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  • co-designer of the entire Soviet biological weapons program known as Biopreparat, carried out the research leading to the creation of an antibiotic resistant...
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  • Hero of Socialist Labour Scientific career Fields Chemistry (Biochemistry) Institutions Biopreparat Moscow State University Soviet Academy of Sciences...
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  • thus creating a highly virulent and deadly strain. Popov has described Biopreparat's "Project Bonfire", whose goal was to develop antibiotic-resistant microbial...
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