The story Russia has settled on—Ukraine is cooking up secret biological weapons—is worse than nonsense. It’s a rerun.
invasion of Ukraine,
put out by the Kremlin over the past few days is copy-pasted almost directly from years of similar nonsense stories that covert Kremlin trolls have used to try and discredit legitimate biological research in other former Soviet republics.were the so-called Lugar Labs in Georgia and Kazakhstan. The labs, named for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction legislation passed with the help of former Republican Sen.
Employees walk in the corridor during a media tour of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory in Tbilisi, March 16, 2011.In a September 2020 post on a hacker forum, an identified user promised readers secrets about the origins of the coronavirus. Hackers had allegedly broken into the inboxes of officials at the lab and claimed to have found “a lot of facts about bats research in 2017," the poster claimed.
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