Putin expresses concern over US bioweapons
At a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council at the end of last month, President Putin was informed of live broadcasts from polling stations during the recent regional elections by foreign parties. The motive, its appears, may be less sinister than possible bioweapons research.
Published: November 4, 2017, 7:33 pm
Council member, Igor Borisov, has hinted at a possible questionable motive behind heightened foreign interest. But the Russian president has dismissed his misgivings saying that he was more worried about biological material being collected throughout the whole country, based on specific ethnic subgroups.
Putin did not elaborate on who is doing the collecting, or why this activity is allowed to proceed, given that it is being monitored. The President’s remarks has however increased concern.
Putin noted that foreigners were collecting biomaterials across Russia — “purposefully and professionally”.
“Why are they going to different ethnic groups and to people living in different geographical locations across Russia?” the president asked. “Why are they doing this?”
Franz Klintsevich, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s Committee for Defense and Security, offered his own view on the collection of human tissue samples.
“I’m not saying that this is about preparing a biological war against Russia,” he stated on his Facebook page. “But those scenarios, without a doubt, are being developed. That is to say, in case the need suddenly arises.”
In July, a US government website issued a tender, seeking to acquire samples of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and synovial fluid from Russians. All samples “shall be collected from Russians, Ukrainian will not be accepted” the tender stated.
Is the US working on a biological weapon to target Russians? Putin said in response: “Let them do what they want, and we must do what we must.”
Others too expressed their concern. The collection of Russian fluids, organs and tissues, said Gennady Onishchenko of the Duma’s committee on education and science, was “nothing other than proof that the United States has not ceased its offensive military program”.
Onishchenko pointed out that there was a “belt of biological warfare facilities” surrounding Russia in neighbouring Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
But Mikhail Davydov, the head of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told The Moscow Times such samples were nothing new and that the practice had been reciprocal. “This has been going on for twenty years,” he said. “We send material to various countries, and they send material to us.”
But a biological weapon, potentially through a process known as “RNA interference” could certainly target certain ethnic groups.
In 2006, Nobel Prize winners Andrew Fire and Craig Mello in 1998 explained how their research from 1998 rendered certain genes inactive, “silencing” certain genes.
Konstantin Severinov, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Rutgers University in the US, told the Moscow Times it would be “impossible”.
But Onishchenko dismissed the American explanation as a “clumsy, ill-conceived legend” adding that the Americans would never reveal their true motive anyway.
“If the person who had been explaining this had revealed their actual goals, they would have had to shoot him,” he said. He has proposed legislation to protect the country’s “biological security”.
In 2007, the Federal Customs Service banned the export of RNA samples after Nikolai Patrushev, the then- head of the FSB, expressed concern to Putin over the development of biological weapons.
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