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| Russian national State Duma adopts in the first reading a draft on punishment for transporting pathogens to Russia |
| 2024-06-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Moscow, June 18, 2024, 20:26 - IA Regnum. The State Duma, at a plenary session on June 18, adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal liability for transporting pathogenic materials into the territory of Russia and for violating safety rules when handling them, according to the Duma website. In particular, the bill proposes to establish criminal liability for a term of up to 12 years in prison for transporting into the country pathogenic biological organisms - viruses, toxins, bioagents obtained as a result of various genetic manipulations and biosynthesis, and up to 8 years - for violating safety rules when handling with them. The document was developed by the inter-factional working group of the State Duma on biological safety issues based on the results of the work of the parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine. “The investigation revealed numerous facts of experiments with biological weapons that were carried out by the United States near our borders in Ukraine. We need more effective measures to counter these threats,” emphasized State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. As Regnum reported, Russian Ambassador to The Hague and Permanent Representative to the OPCW Vladimir Tarabrin on March 24 announced that Russia has information that 30 biological laboratories continue to operate on the territory of Ukraine, which are working on behalf of Washington. The diplomat recalled that on the day the special military operation began, the Ukrainian authorities hastily began to destroy the dangerous samples stored in these laboratories, but in 2023 the Kiev regime resumed the implementation of these programs, changing their names. Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov previously stated that the United States has turned Ukraine into a testing ground for the illegal implementation of military-biological programs. In August 2023, one of the US presidential candidates from the Democratic Party, Robert Kennedy Jr., admitted that the United States was creating laboratories in Ukraine as part of its biological weapons program. He also clarified that American specialists are developing, in particular, bioweapons. |
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