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4. RUSSIA - Siberian Plague Incident Raises Bioweapon Questions - IVANA STRADNER 100826

Oct 8, 2026 · 9m

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1896 SIBERIA Siberian Plague Incident Raises Bioweapon Questions Ivana Stradner investigates reports of a fatal pneumonic plague incident at a research facility in remote Irkutsk, Siberia. Moscow has denied rumors while routinely projecting blame onto the U.S. with false accusations of operating bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Stradner highlights the Soviet legacy of engineering plague as a biological weapon and warns that Russia’s opaque information control conceals dangerous pathogen research. She urges the U.S. administration to press for international inspections. (4)