Center for Military Technical Problems of Biological Defense of Scientific Research of Microbiology, Ekaterinaburg

-The Center for Military Technical Problems of Biological Defense of the Scientific Research of Microbiology in Ekaterinaburg, Russia, in 2015. The yellow boxes indicate areas that changed significantly since 2005. (Courtesy of Raymond Zilinskas/Center for Nonproliferation Studies)

    Whatever the explanation, the buildup is striking.  Data collected by Zilinskas and Mauger includes contract documents, Russian-language reports and aerial imagery that shed light on a dramatic expansion at the four secret Defense Ministry laboratories and numerous government-run civilian research centers across the country.

  At one military complex at Yekaterinburg — the scene of an accidental release of anthrax spores in 1979 that is said to have killed 100 workers and townspeople — satellite images show clusters of newly built, warehouse-size industrial buildings dotting a walled campus.  Renovations can be observed in older buildings that in Soviet times were factories for mass-producing bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

  At the 33rd Central Research Test Institute at Shikhany — formerly a “closed” Russian military city on the Volga River in southwest Russia — records point to a recent spending spree for specialized equipment such as freeze-drying machines used in microbial production.  Lab officials are shown soliciting bids for repairs to a wind tunnel, the type used in testing aerosolized bacteria and viruses, as well as upgrades to an area of bermed storage pens that the researchers say are probably intended for open-air testing involving explosives.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/poisoning-of-russian-ex-spy-puts-spotlight-on-moscows-secret-military-labs/2018/03/18/9968efb6-2962-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.c9319c623df9

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4-10-18     https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/better-financially-to-kill-suspects-than-wound-them-sheriff/ar-AAvI8I8