The agreement, the result of more than a year of negotiations, was announced by Sens. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The senators credited Ukraine's reformist leaders, ushered into power by last fall's Orange Revolution, with breaking bureaucratic resistance to the pact.
One lab to receive funding is the I.I. Mechnikov Antiplague Scientific and Research Institute, in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. The institute was part of a Cold War network of "antiplague" stations that supplied highly lethal pathogens to Soviet bioweapons factories.”
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Delegation Led by U.S. Senators Detained Briefly at Russian Airport
By Peter FinnAugust 29, 2005
A U.S. delegation headed by Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine.
Russian border guards at the airport in the Siberian city of Perm demanded they be allowed to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was making his first foreign trip since becoming a senator. Obama is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"It's always unbelievable," Lugar told a reporter from the Chicago Tribune traveling with the delegation. "It can be a dysfunctional government."
American officials, citing a U.S.-Russian agreement that does not allow such inspections, refused to let the search take place, leading to a three-hour standoff at the airport, according to Andy Fisher, a spokesman for Lugar who is on the trip.
Delegation Led by U.S. Senators Detained Briefly at Russian Airport
By Peter FinnAugust 29, 2005
A U.S. delegation headed by Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine.
Russian border guards at the airport in the Siberian city of Perm demanded they be allowed to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was making his first foreign trip since becoming a senator. Obama is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"It's always unbelievable," Lugar told a reporter from the Chicago Tribune traveling with the delegation. "It can be a dysfunctional government."
American officials, citing a U.S.-Russian agreement that does not allow such inspections, refused to let the search take place, leading to a three-hour standoff at the airport, according to Andy Fisher, a spokesman for Lugar who is on the trip.
The congressional delegation was held in a malodorous room adjacent to the tarmac and allowed onto an adjoining porch area only after they surrendered their passports, said Fisher, who spoke by phone from Kiev after the delegation landed there.
"This is not the first time this has happened," Fisher said, noting that a delegation including Lugar was detained in Perm for a short time two years ago. "It may be some kind of internal bureaucratic problem."
U.S. officials in Moscow and Washington intervened with the Russian authorities to secure the group's departure.
The delegation was in Russia as part of a week-long tour of major weapons facilities in former Soviet republics, where U.S. funds are being used to secure or destroy nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Russia recently agreed to open sensitive sites to U.S. inspection, a development that Lugar heralded at a news conference Friday in Moscow.
"Russians in the past had placed severe limitations on inspections at these storage sites, so this is a significant breakthrough," said Lugar, who is the co-author of the 1991 Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
In Perm, the delegation toured a facility designed to destroy nuclear warheads.
After visiting Ukraine, the delegation will travel to Azerbaijan.
Separately, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) was briefly delayed at an airport in another Siberian city, Irkutsk, because of a problem with flight clearance paperwork. Hagel was in the region to tour a nearby natural gas deposit site as part of a trip to study energy issues. The issue was resolved after the embassy contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry, and Hagel flew on to Bulgaria, a diplomat here said.
Same trip in 2005:
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“A U.S. delegation headed by Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was detained Sunday for three hours at an airport in Russia before being allowed to leave the country for Ukraine.
Russian border guards at the airport in the Siberian city of Perm demanded they be allowed to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was making his first foreign trip since becoming a senator. Obama is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
"It's always unbelievable," Lugar told a reporter from the Chicago Tribune traveling with the delegation. "It can be a dysfunctional government."
American officials, citing a U.S.-Russian agreement that does not allow such inspections, refused to let the search take place, leading to a three-hour standoff at the airport, according to Andy Fisher, a spokesman for Lugar who is on the trip.”
GUESS WHERE THE FUCK OBAMA WAS AT? Read the print at the bottom.
DONETSK UKRAINE IN 2005
If it is true that these labs were destroyed, the OSINT community WILL figure that out eventually. Or anons will and the OSINT community will try to debunk and end up proving the anons correct. Either way, the truth of this isn't going be hidden for long. Soon as high res sat images emerge without cloud cover or high res SAR images are published, these sites are gonna easy to see.
Unless... they were not destroyed, but instead raided, looted, and disabled in some way. Given their very urban locations, that is a real possibility.